Comments on: Safari on Windows: First impressions from a browser developer http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/ Christopher Finke is a software engineer who builds high-traffic websites (like AOL Shopping and Mahalo.com) and develops browser add-ons (like ScribeFire, TwitterBar, FireFound, and Tapsure) to enhance the Web. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:27:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: gamermediadownload http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-57874 gamermediadownload Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:23:33 +0000 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-57874 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.. 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 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-20678 Jim Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:06:54 +0000 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-20678 Meh, I figured it would be bad right now, haven't bothered and won't bother to try it until a few more betas. 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 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-19551 Chris K Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:57:42 +0000 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-19551 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. 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 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-19407 niels Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:10:45 +0000 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-19407 Here's more about the blurry font issue from Joel Spolsky... http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html .n Here’s more about the blurry font issue from Joel Spolsky…

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

.n

]]> By: Stanley Krute http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-19280 Stanley Krute Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:50:50 +0000 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-19280 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 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

]]> By: jasnmb http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-19267 jasnmb Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:45:29 +0000 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-19267 The Appearance tab in Preferences lets you adjust the font smoothing but none of the options really helped IMO. I seems much slower than Firefox for me. I do like how it highlights the border of input boxes that are in focus though. The Appearance tab in Preferences lets you adjust the font smoothing but none of the options really helped IMO.

I seems much slower than Firefox for me.

I do like how it highlights the border of input boxes that are in focus though.

]]> By: jasnmb http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-19266 jasnmb Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:45:00 +0000 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-19266 The Appearance tab in Preferences lets you adjust the font smoothing but none of the options really helped IMO. I seems much slower that Firefox for me. I do like how it highlights the border of input boxes that are in focus though. The Appearance tab in Preferences lets you adjust the font smoothing but none of the options really helped IMO.

I seems much slower that Firefox for me.

I do like how it highlights the border of input boxes that are in focus though.

]]> By: stupid http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-19262 stupid Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:34:21 +0000 http://www.chrisfinke.com/2007/06/11/safari-on-windows-first-impressions/#comment-19262 It's a beta, what a stupid post It’s a beta, what a stupid post

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