Safari comes to Windows: Public beta posted
updated 03:00 pm EDT, Mon June 11, 2007
Safari Windows
Safari is now platform-agnostic. Apple's venerable Web browser has made its way to Windows, with a public beta immediately available. The company says it is using the success it found in building Windows applications like iTunes to develop the best browser for Windows. Apple claims it is already the fastest browser for Windows, touting an application launch time of .88 seconds vs. 2.48 seconds for Internet Explorer 7.
Other performance stats: "Safari loads pages up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. And it executes JavaScript up to 2.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2."
Apple says this testing was conducted in June 2007 on a 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo-based iMac system running Windows XP Professional SP2, configured with 1GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon X1600 with 128MB of VRAM. HTML and JavaScript benchmarks based on VeriTest’s iBench Version 5.0 using default settings.
iLife is Next For PC
06/11, 02:19pm reply
This is just the start. iLife is next : )
Guest
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OMG WTF
06/11, 03:34pm reply
seems like Jobs wants to unswitch some switchers
doemel
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and...
06/11, 02:44pm reply
...how will Apple get more people to move to the Mac now? i mean, 90+ % of today's computer users use their computer 90+ % of the time to surf the web (while listening to music). now we've got Safari for Windows (web), iTunes for Windows (music) AND 90+ % of the web p*** content is encoded for Windows Media Player only, so why would anyone still wanna get a Mac?
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yawn
06/11, 02:49pm reply
Sorry, but I can't imagine switching to Safari. Firefox just offers way to much control to slip into Safari's "Off or on" approach to settings (pop-ups, cookies, etc). But at least there's one less excuse for web-site developers to say "We don't have any macs, so we can't test our site with safari".
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Hmmm?
06/11, 04:09pm reply
Maybe Apple derives some revenue when more people use Safari -- from Google, etc.? That's the only benefit I can see. Give Windows users too much Mac stuff and why would they switch?
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I think...
06/11, 03:06pm reply
I think the main reason is to draw Windows developers to the iPhone. Safari is (or is going to be) the best platform to test iPhone applications which are going to be Web2 and AJAX driven.
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dvelopment tools?
06/11, 03:10pm reply
So how do they do their development for windows? I was pretty sure that Safari is a cocoa app, so does that mean they have cocoa ready to go for windows (isn't this the fabled yellow box after all?).
What does this all mean, somebody help?
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Get a life...
06/11, 04:38pm reply
No one ever switched to Mac because of Safari. Apple's not losing anything on this. It's the one smart thing they unveiled today.
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dev tools
06/11, 03:31pm reply
Apple is recomending AJAX and WEB 2.0 protocols. Windows already has tools. Safari on windows give them an iPhone test platform... That is all.
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poking bankers in the eye
06/11, 03:39pm reply
This is to force all those financial institutions with web sites that only work with IE to follow web standards.
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