Comments on: Apple’s One More Thing: Safari on Windows

By: David

David — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 20:31:33 +0000

Seems decent, though they have a decent ways to go on it. And the font smoothing honestly makes my eyes burn. You can turn it on Light but not off. I prefer not to have all my text blurred and painful to focus on. Perhaps it’s just a rendering issue, I don’t know, but I can’t work with a browser that does requires the font to be like that.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 00:46:25 +0000

I installed it and I use it more often than Firefox now

By: alephresh

alephresh — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 04:29:58 +0000

Hmm, I was a bit tired when I wrote my first comment. I guess it’s not that bad. People seem to like it and stuff. I guess it’s really not optimized for old PCs, so that makes my experience very bad. (I’m actually using a 633 MHz Celeron with 256 MiB SDR… :P)

But it does hang each time I visit http://www.ynet.co.il/ (for example), so I wouldn’t say it’s more stable than WL Messenger… Oh, and it shows Hebrew page titles backwards. It just doesn’t seem ready for public beta.

By: .Lou

.Lou — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 16:31:52 +0000

There’s so many people that are bashing it, simply because it’s an Apple product. Personally, I think it looks really good and works quite well considering it’s beta. In my opinion, it’s already more stable than Windows Live Messenger. One thing though, I think it uses too much ram.

By: alephresh

alephresh — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:27:30 +0000

Well, the Windows beta fails miserably. Hangs, crazy resource usage, alienated/slow/buggy GUI, weird text rendering… Apple could learn a thing or two about cross-platform-ness from Mozilla or Opera. Also, Opera is far more configurable and customizable. How is this the best browser in the world?

Anyway, though I like Apple, I’m not crazy about the whole idea of Safari. They adhere to Web standards, so why not support Mozilla like Google does? I think this segmentation of good browsers and layout engines (Mozilla/Apple/Opera) just makes it harder to compete with the IE monopoly. (The same thing can be said about the plethora of Linux distributions.)

By: Tikitiki

Tikitiki — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:03:55 +0000

I definitely like it

By: musicalmidget

musicalmidget — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 23:40:37 +0000

Just downloaded and installed Safari now. Looks very nice indeed. I’m sure I’ll have fun playing with it for a while.

Good job you posted this. I might not have found out about the release for quite some time if not.