Steve Jobs announces Apple Safari web browser for Windows XP and Vista

Steve Jobs ^ | June 11, 2007

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Steve Jobs at Apple Worldwide Developers Conferences announces -

11:10 am - Safari 3 on leopard...now runs on xp/vista

Live transcript: http://www.macrumorslive.com/

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It's better than FireFox, in my opinion.

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A beta version of Safari for Windows will be available for download today at -

http://www.apple.com/safari/

[mnehring]

I never did get the love for Firefox.. I found Opera & IE run much better.

[martin_fierro]

It's better than FireFox, in my opinion.

HERESY!

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[Mr. Blonde]

Pretty interesting. I like it better than firefox on Mac for sure. Mainly because it doesn’t expand to full screen, but just enough to show the full page.

[DesScorp]

Competition is a good thing, But...Itunes for Windows stinks on ice. I hope Safari is a much better product on Win32.

[theFIRMbss]

>Safari 3 on leopard...now runs on xp/vista

So, pages will run
the same on the Mac, iPhone
and now Vista, too.

I'd buy Apple stock.
Don't know if I'd buy a Mac,
but I'd buy the stock.

[Mr. Blonde]

I never thought iTunes was that bad on Windows. It does seem people have problems getting Windows to recognize their iPod though.

[Shimmer128]

I’ll buy you a share of stock if you buy me a Mac. :D

[Keith in Iowa]

>>A beta version of Safari for Windows will be available for download today at -

>> http://www.apple.com/safari/

Downloading now... :)

[Mr. Know It All]

It's better than FireFox, in my opinion.

Are you a web developer? Personally, I'm sick of "Safari Work-arounds". Firefox: WAD (Works as Designed)

[Spktyr]

Except for when Firefox has rendering errors or simply refuses to load a page...

[mnehring]

My download for Windows is done.. this really is a lot faster and the pages render sharper.

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Are you a web developer?

I've designed several web sites, including a couple of years as the webmaster for a Fortune 500 company, and was probably the first user of PHP on Mac hardware. Nowadays, I develop Mac applications with the Cocoa framework.

I haven't experienced many problems with Safari. It does a good job on standards compliance. In my experience, it's the "Internet Explorer" workarounds that cause a lot of grief.

[Keith in Iowa]

I like it so far...but miss the spell-check as you go in Firefox...or I have to find how to enable it... :)

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Live spell-check works on the Mac version. Check for the “Spelling” submenu under the Edit menu.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>Live spell-check works on the Mac version. Check for the “Spelling” submenu under the Edit menu.

Found that - selecting that option on the menu seems to make no difference on the Windows version. I can live with it...

[Vermonter]

I downloaded and installed the new Safari, but wound up uninstalling it after it crashed multiple times trying to view the Leopard demo on Apple’s website. I’m running an Intel iMac with all the latest OS updates.

[Keith in Iowa]

tech-ping worthy?

[Mr. Know It All]

Except for when Firefox has rendering errors or simply refuses to load a page...

I usually don't have problems unless the page is heavily dependent on Microsoft-proprietary behavior (in which case, it's not Firefox's fault).