Safari browser for Windows!
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dogmatique
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I was quite excited, as I like new browsers, yes I do. I LOVE choice!
But hang on a minute - Apple has managed to produce the most ugly fucking browser I've ever seen! What's that all about? The kind of people who will try this out will have already tried Firefox, Opera and IE7 - this comes way way down the list.
Awful grey masthead, terrible blurry text, and the idiocy of only letting you resize from the top or bottom corner.
Beta? This really isn't fit for public consumption. It's upsetting me even typing this in it. So I'll stop.
Come back with better, Jobs, this is a SERIOUS embarrasment.
But hang on a minute - Apple has managed to produce the most ugly fucking browser I've ever seen! What's that all about? The kind of people who will try this out will have already tried Firefox, Opera and IE7 - this comes way way down the list.
Awful grey masthead, terrible blurry text, and the idiocy of only letting you resize from the top or bottom corner.
Beta? This really isn't fit for public consumption. It's upsetting me even typing this in it. So I'll stop.
Come back with better, Jobs, this is a SERIOUS embarrasment.
dogmatique
merde alors
Ah... Back to Opera. Not perfect by any means, but whoa buddy, a lot prettier than Safari. Such a shame.
FridgeMagnet
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Works on any Mac browser iirc, it's built into the OS or summink.cybertect said:
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Odd as it works on Mac.
Apple prolly need to make this skinnable, as that's one of the luxuries Windows users like, same as modding your own PC, I think, though I'm no expert on Windows by any means.
Text needs to be a WIndow iteration of the way text is rendered, rather than a reversal of the usual Mac windows text thing (text on windows works different than on Mac - but browser for windows should work like windows for text.
Tell Dave Hyatt.
Odd as it works on Mac.
Apple prolly need to make this skinnable, as that's one of the luxuries Windows users like, same as modding your own PC, I think, though I'm no expert on Windows by any means.
Text needs to be a WIndow iteration of the way text is rendered, rather than a reversal of the usual Mac windows text thing (text on windows works different than on Mac - but browser for windows should work like windows for text.
Tell Dave Hyatt.
bouncer_the_dog
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Its quite ironic actually, I have been working on my weekends and evenings on a freelance project (hey i just like working all the time 
) and I got a call from the client saying that my perfect designed website was naffed up.. and I remembered she has a macbook g4 with a screen the size of a stamp and a ancient version of safari. So I thought hmm.. wouldn't it be useful if safari was on the pC, clicked on BBC technology (as one does when posed with a problem - displacement activity and all) and hey presto MAc have released it for PC
Except its doesn't repeat the problem becuase its been solved in Safari 3 ahem.. but luckily I have a macbook g4 with a screen the size of a stamp and a ancient version of safari in a drawer somewhere.. I just got to charge it up now.. So my original plan of not moving and just downloading somthing nearly worked..
I think I may be doing displacement activity again....
) and I got a call from the client saying that my perfect designed website was naffed up.. and I remembered she has a macbook g4 with a screen the size of a stamp and a ancient version of safari. So I thought hmm.. wouldn't it be useful if safari was on the pC, clicked on BBC technology (as one does when posed with a problem - displacement activity and all) and hey presto MAc have released it for PC Except its doesn't repeat the problem becuase its been solved in Safari 3
ahem.. but luckily I have a macbook g4 with a screen the size of a stamp and a ancient version of safari in a drawer somewhere.. I just got to charge it up now.. So my original plan of not moving and just downloading somthing nearly worked..I think I may be doing displacement activity again....
cybertect
It's grim up north (London)
A few new things that I like (on the Mac)
- it's fast
- resizable text input boxes in forms (like the one I'm typing into now, there's a little thumb in the bottom right hand corner).
- search is much better
- drag and drop tabs from one window to another or to create a new window
BTW does 'blurry text' that everyone's on about look like this?
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/mangroveearthshoe/safari_explorer.PNG
- it's fast
- resizable text input boxes in forms (like the one I'm typing into now, there's a little thumb in the bottom right hand corner).
- search is much better
- drag and drop tabs from one window to another or to create a new window
BTW does 'blurry text' that everyone's on about look like this?
http://members.arstechnica.com/x/mangroveearthshoe/safari_explorer.PNG
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
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same here it's doing me head in at the mo'
speed is good tho' and quite intuitive to use I thought
the fonts tho'-eww
Divisive Cotton
Now I just have my toy soldiers
For those of us who design websites on a PC and are interested how a website would look on a Mac, will this windows version of Safari be of any use?
FridgeMagnet
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Trying it out at work at the moment. Hah - irony - it doesn't work with the .Mac bookmarks web page
There are also some little UI bugs and annoyances. Fast as a fucker though, and it's slow page rendering that I've found irritates me the most.
I use Safari at home mostly for that reason, so I'll probably keep using this unless it really starts to annoy me or become unusable. It _is_ beta, and _proper_ beta rather than any of that Web 2.0 "perpetual beta" stuff i.e. it's actually a test version, so I'd expect updates.
There are also some little UI bugs and annoyances. Fast as a fucker though, and it's slow page rendering that I've found irritates me the most.
I use Safari at home mostly for that reason, so I'll probably keep using this unless it really starts to annoy me or become unusable. It _is_ beta, and _proper_ beta rather than any of that Web 2.0 "perpetual beta" stuff i.e. it's actually a test version, so I'd expect updates.
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