Comments on: Safari on Windows: First impressions from a browser developer

By: gamermediadownload

gamermediadownload — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:23:33 +0000

Interesting to hear this from a developer's POV, I just download safari a few hours ago. It seems to work well enough, but then again, so does firefox..

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:06:54 +0000

Meh, I figured it would be bad right now, haven't bothered and won't bother to try it until a few more betas.

By: Chris K

Chris K — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:57:42 +0000

Well, it seems Safari doesn't like localized versions of XP. Installation on Slovakized XP resulted in Bookmarks crashing Safari, missing fonts, pretty much useless. However, it worked fine on British English XP. So I uninstalled Slovak from the other computer (ended up with US English UI) and now I'm running Safari smoothly. Bar the rather blurry font rendering. But it works just fine:-) My Macs are running Safari 3 without glitches.

By: niels

niels — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:10:45 +0000

Here's more about the blurry font issue from Joel Spolsky...

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html

By: Stanley Krute

Stanley Krute — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:50:50 +0000

On my stock XP SP2 system, it came up with NO fonts. Couldn't type anything in to the address bar.

Then it crashed and locked the machine.

Reboot. Uninstall. Download again. Reinstall.

Still no fonts.

Uninstalled. I'll wait for the next beta. This build is hardly alpha.

-- stan