Safari For Windows

[Zema Bus]

Thought I'd give it a try. So far, not bad. Infact I'm kinda impressed. Sites seem to load faster than in either IE or Firefox. As with iTunes, it doesn't use the default XP GUI, infact it looks nearly identical to iTunes. It has tabbed browsing like Firefox and IE7, but also allows you to move the tabs around. Too bad there's no Linux version, you'd think there would be considering the Apple OS is Unix based. Anyway, I'll be playing around with it awhile. It's avail here. (http://www.apple.com/safari/download/)

[[ GK ]]

I used to use Safari when I had Macs. It was nice, but sites like cnn.com frequently made it crash. I tried Firefox, and kept on using it. I haven't tried the Windows version of Safari, however.

[Grogan]

Last time I tried Safari in Windows it was crap. Crashed often, had serious security problems* being found at the time, and generally was brain dead. I hope it's been improved since.

It uses khtml as an engine... ported in from KDE (and forked off)

* You can't just take something and port it to an insecure environment like Windows and not expect problems. (Things that its native OS environment wouldn't have allowed to happen)

[Grogan]

Too bad there's no Linux version, you'd think there would be considering the Apple OS is Unix based.

They'd probably have to publish too much of their source code to use the interfaces or make some horrible self contained kludge. They already have to publish their khtml fork. (bare minimum to satisfy the licensing... and they do it in such a way as to make porting changes back difficult)

Also, nobody in the Linux community likes a black box. It wouldn't be popular. Distros wouldn't ship it, and developers would scorn it if it was non-free. (not adhering to one of the accepted licenses)

[AlmightyCthulhu]

They'd probably have to publish too much of their source code to use the interfaces or make some horrible self contained kludge. They already have to publish their khtml fork. (bare minimum to satisfy the licensing... and they do it in such a way as to make porting changes back difficult)

Also, nobody in the Linux community likes a black box. It wouldn't be popular. Distros wouldn't ship it, and developers would scorn it if it was non-free. (not adhering to one of the accepted licenses)


They probably know nobody would use it, Apple has a bunch of fanboy fartsniffer's that nobody can stand, the company's attitude is snooty as well, and their software is really quite lacking when you cut past the fanboy-generated hype.