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Posted on 01/12/2007 8:59:09 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
Dear Apple, the first 30 years were only the beginning, or so you say. You're poised to make HUGE inroads this year, with some sources saying you're going to claim up to 20% of laptop sales on college campuses. You're also going to sell a ridiculous number of iPods again, an obscene number of tracks on iTunes, and very likely a substantial number of iPhones and iTVs if, in fact, they show up soon. Let me tell you what you really ought to do then, and quickly: port Safari to Windows.
Read on, I'll tell you why.
(Excerpt) Read more at firsttube.com ...
But KDE 4 will be ported to windows. And it's skinnable.
Problem solved.
Besides, I think that webcore or whatever it's called has already been ported.
Not happening. Apple should and will focus its Safari development efforts on improving the browser, rather than porting it. I think they're content to leave the better browsing on Windows to Firefox.
I totally agree. There are plenty of browser options on Windows already (and Firefox is a pretty good option), so why would Apple waste their effort on porting Safari over. The only motivation Apple has to port any of their software over to Windows is to drive more hardware sales, like iTunes to drive iPod sales. Since the iPod and iPhone also sync with iPhoto, I could see Apple porting iPhoto over to Windows before they would bother with Safari.
I think plenty of people will get a taste for Safari on their iPhones. It certainly won't be just Mac users with those.
I don't think that Safari is a particularly good browser.
In OSX, I tend to use Firefox, and in Windows (Vista), I think that IE7 is probably the best.
In OSX, I tend to use Firefox, and in Windows (Vista), I think that IE7 is probably the best.
Point. I use Firefox myself, but before I moved to it I inquired of Apple why I didn't seem to be getting broadband performance from my cable modem. They recommended upgrading to Panther to get Safari, and the performance was far superior (to IE) (comes to that, there are some settings you have to tweek in Firefox to take advantage of broadband).But the point that Apple's phone runs Safari is also well taken.
What settings do you have to tweak in FireFox to get the best performance? My sons swear by FireFox, but although I like the features of FireFox, I thing Safari is faster--I have cable. But maybe I don't have the FireFox settings tweaked properly.
Thanks.
I don't have the documentation bookmarked.Ping to LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget. He's the guy who told me.
Apple needs to spend time convincing websites that have important commercial or business related content that will not run on Macs to write more platform independent content.
Having websites tell me "I'm sorry we do not support Mac, you have to run windows to use our info" is the most frustrating Mac experience. A lot of these websites are unique. For example earnings.com.
Unhhh, Safari sucks. I personally, use it as a "canary in a coal mine" to see if javascript code will work. Safari defines the lowest common denominator.
That said, this is being written on Safari. Mainly, I like the integration that comes with Cocoa - dictionary, spell check, etc.
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I don't think that Safari is a particularly good browser.
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It has terrible memory problems. It's the only app I use that crashes regularly.
Safari is notorious for memory problems, that being said, so is Firefox...or any tabbed browser for that matter. I tend to quit browsers after a little while, that caching of javascript, HTML, etc does horrible, particularly if you're a college student looking at multiple databases simultaneously.
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Safari is notorious for memory problems, that being said, so is Firefox...or any tabbed browser for that matter.
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True, you have to be proactive. That's why I like FireFox so much. I installed a session recovery extension that makes a crash no big deal.
This guide is **VV**EE**RR**YY** long winded, which is why I'm linking you directly to page 8. But maybe that's for the better, it probably covers every little damn thing. :-P (no, I didn't read it)
http://www.tweakguides.com/Firefox_8.html
Anyways, tweaking firefox advanced settings is as simple as typing in
about:config
Into your browser bar. Be careful. Page 8 is all about "about:config", so you can read before you destroy your browser.
I got curious and did some hunting.
It looks like this is the thread I learned from:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts
Thanks. I'll check it out!
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