p2pnet - rss feed: Windows as iPhone booster?
p2pnet.net news:- Why would anyone want Apple’s Safari running inside Microsoft’s Windows? Steve Jobs figures significant numbers of people would want exactly that, so he’s offering a free Safari 3 public beta.
What’s special about it? Several intriguing new features, says InformationWeek’s Mitch Wagner, stating:
“Users can reorder tabs by dragging them around. They can drag a tab out of a browser window and use it to start a new window. The browser provides improved searching on individual pages. And, in a feature that will be a real treat for people who participate in Web forums, the browser has resizable text input fields for Web forms. Moreover, Apple boasts that Safari renders Web pages significantly faster than either IE7 or Firefox 2.”
So?
Wagner thinks it may all be about the iPhone, slated for launch at the end of this month.
“The iPhone is going to run Safari, and Apple will allow developers to write Safari apps that run on the iPhone,” he says, adding:
“Windows users may need to run Safari to get access to some synchronization features with iPhone and the desktop. Moreover, even a sliver of Windows market share will give Safari a huge boost in the raw numbers of its installed base, which would make Safari a more attractive platform for developers and could increase the range of applications available for the iPhone.”
Also See:
Safari 3 public beta - Apple’s new Safari for Windows, June 11, 2007
InformationWeek - Windows Users Don’t Care About Safari, June 12, 2007
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June 14th, 2007 at 4:44 am
Jobs is right, many would, Since Safari is NOT Integrated with windows XP SP2 etc.. IE7 that is - I actually feel safer browsing websites. Guess what Windows update had an outlook patch, but since I do not either have it or it somehow got installed thru SBE 2k3 of MS office which I said not to, or was it the one already installed.. Anyway I decided not to try and download it, WELL BEHOLD I look thru the Secuna website and it says that this exploit could be exploited when I visited a webpage with IE
so I had to download and install it to be safe..
I have and used and still use portable firefox, but sometimes I DO NOT feel like starting it up and used IE7 before but I was always afraid of visiting websites due to that it’s easy to get hacked by just visiting a bad one, well Safari is not integrated so I feel much safer & have Downgraded IE7 to only visiting MS website where the WGA activation is required and any activex websites such as updates on MS or Online virus scanner sites…
Anyway Safari does have it’s probs and some features not implemented which need to…and can slow down my system a few times and can mess up a downloaded page which is rare by the way and Mostly on images, but Compared to IE7, I’ll use it..
Again right now it is in BETA so I can accept that and I only have one other BETA and that is IOBIT from iobit.com ….
Lastly…again jobs is right…. oh and about the page rendering as it does some pages quickly - some slow - some medium…
My impression of rendering page quickness from Quickness to Least Quickness…
IE7 (tweaked dialup window settings - finally so it renders quite fast)
Safari
Firefox 2.0 +
(oh and I downloaded it within the 24hrs it was released)
June 14th, 2007 at 5:18 am
wow quick, 3.01 is out