Comments on: Thoughts on Safari 3 for Windows…

By: Kyle

Kyle — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 21:36:07 +0000

yea i swear i have clicked the back button on my mouse 1 million times thinking taht i will go to the previous page… but nope i have to move the mouse to the back button in safari!!! fix it apple!!!

By: Kunal

Kunal — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 05:51:24 +0000

Here’s ArsTechnica’s take on the subject:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070612-afirst-look-safari-3-on-windows.html

By: j. brotherlove

j. brotherlove — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:29:51 +0000

Great review! I agree with everything you noted in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. This beta is a good effort but not ready for primetime, for me. The speed is nice but the font rendering is blecch. Surprisingly, it crashed on me from the very start. Most importantly, those pesky security vulnerabilities are a big problem.

By: Bilal

Bilal — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 22:56:10 +0000

Kunal: Yeah, I just saw your other post regarding that and it cleared things up…

By: Kunal

Kunal — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:08:17 +0000

@Matthew: Those are some pretty important things to fix. You should make sure you report those to Apple.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:46:41 +0000

It works pretty well (for a beta) for me, save for a couple things — I can’t enter Japanese text into form fields using the IME, which makes it useless if I want to do any browsing of Japanese sites. And on top of that, if your default non-Unicode language is set to Japanese then Japanese fonts won’t display properly (in pages or menus) since the font names are in Japanese and it apparently can’t read them then…

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By: Kunal

Kunal — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:58:10 +0000

@Bilal:

>> The ClearType still works, right? I’m on Safari right now and the fonts seem to be fine.

It does use a subpixel rendering technique, but it’s not ClearType. You can see a comparison screenshot here:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000884.html

>> Okay, it just crashed on me twice. Happened everytime I tried to change my home page. =/

Yeah, it’s crashed on me a few times since yesterday. Too bad there’s no session saver for it, eh? ;)

By: Geoff

Geoff — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 09:48:09 +0000

You could pass on your thoughts to the webkit team at irc://irc.freenode.org/#webkit

By: Bert JW Regeer

Bert JW Regeer — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 05:40:10 +0000

Safari and iTunes are meant to be run on Mac OS X. Simple. Sure it is nice Apple is willing to release versions for Windows, they will never fit in. The entire rip from Mac OS X and stick on Windows was done on purpose, they want to emulate Safari on the Mac as closely as possible.