Is Safari on Windows a good thing or a bad thing?

re: Is Safari on Windows a good thing or a bad thing?

Bertrand Le Roy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:25:30 GMT

@Jasy: sure, Safari 3 on Windows is a very decent browser. I still find the Mac-isms and font rendering hideous but as a browser it's definitely one to consider.

re: Is Safari on Windows a good thing or a bad thing?

Jasy White — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:09:26 GMT

but do you think Safari 3, is good to download on Windows.

re: Is Safari on Windows a good thing or a bad thing?

HPC — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:44:16 GMT

Mark Perrin said:

I thing this is terrible news, I use OSX Tiger and to be honest i went with OSX because it just works better for me. I do not understand why apple is even bothering porting safari to windows, they should leave it with OSX. If a windows user wants safari, buy a mac you cheapo. I believe that the windows version should be a lower spec than the OSX version and the same with Itunes otherwise whats the point. Apple should make their own versions for their platform and customers the better version. Windows is crap. full stop! Id rather the Apple developers dedicate their time to Apple, why bother with Microsh1t.

Aww. the proud Mac user feels a bit less special now..boohoo

You're the typical stuck up Mac user which makes me never ever consider a Mac. And yes I CAN afford one.

Apple makes good money from PC users dumbass so they'e customers as well.

re: Is Safari on Windows a good thing or a bad thing?

Chocolim — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:27:02 GMT

Anything is better than IE

re: Is Safari on Windows a good thing or a bad thing?

mark perrin — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:12:35 GMT

safari 3 after a few weeks sucks on both platforms, ive gone back to safari 2.0 on OSX and windows is welcome to this buggy load of crap. Lets hope apple have laced the windows version with bugs on purpose to show those windows users just how buggy they can make vista. LOL its like the secret poisoned pill disguised as a browser but laced with cyanide.

re: Is Safari on Windows a good thing or a bad thing?

Greg — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:03:17 GMT

BTW - I'm using JQuery and Thickbox and my iFrame's called into the DOM work without a hitch. jquery.com/.../thickbox

re: Is Safari on Windows a good thing or a bad thing?

Shawn Burke — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:53:03 GMT

Betrand, re the debug issue, see my blog, there's instructions there. http://blogs.msdn.com/sburke/archive/2007/06/11/apple-releases-safari-for-windows.aspx I'm fascinated by how much discussion this is generating. It's a browser, people. At the end of the day having it on Windows will only have the effect of helping web developers make sure their sites work on Safari so that Mac users have a browser out of the box that works more reliably either via fixing the sites or pushing fixes into the browser. That's fine with me.

re: Is Safari on Windows a good thing or a bad thing?

Luis Abreu — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:41:25 GMT

Even though many are saying that it's fast, I'm saying that it sucks...i'm still waiting to see links rendered correctly (90% of the sites i tried opening on it just don't render correctly and i'm not talking about css positions and stuff like that; i'm talking about not seeing on the pages...)

re: Is Safari on Windows a good thing or a bad thing?

Bertrand Le Roy — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:29:03 GMT

Rich: I'd love to. I know how to enable it on the Mac but not on the PC. I was unable to find that info on Apple's web site. Can you explain, please?

re: Is Safari on Windows a good thing or a bad thing?

RichB — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:17:26 GMT

>total lack of error feedback Have you got the Safari Debug menu turned on? You can enable it on both the Mac and Windows versions (balk at the XML schema on Windows while you do it...). Alternatively, use Adobe AIR's webbrowser sample for some Firebug-esque debugging tools.