Apple is decided to take on Windows IE7 on its own turf.
“What we’ve got here is the most innovative browser in the world and the most powerful browser in the world,” said Apple CEO Steve Jobs said during his keynote speech at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
Safari, which was released a few years ago for Apple’s Macintosh computers, has captured about 5 percent of the world’s market share for Internet browsers with more than 18 million users, Jobs said.
Internet Explorer is the predominant browser with a 78 percent share, while Firefox has rapidly climbed to gain about 15 percent of the market, he said. Like the other Web browsers, Safari is available at no charge.
Damn. Start reading between the lines. I would love to hear people’s theories on what brought this on. But I think it may be something as simple as this. The iPhone is confirmed to be running the Safari browser so any apps that run in Safari on Mac and Windows should present on the iPhone.
Safari For Windows & Mac Download
Screen shots after the jump…
Screenshots of the install…
I installed this into a virtual machine on my Mac. The install went off without a hitch.
[tags]Safari For Windows, Safari Browser, Apple, iPhone[/tags]
It can be zippity in some pages, but in the age of broadband, who cares?
*Ugly theme/buttons
*Ugly window buttons (minimize/maximize/restore/close)
*Clicking taskbar does not minimize it
*”You haven’t entered anything in Google box” Geez, maybe I just wanted to intuitively go to Google.com
*”great” Apple UI everywhere, for example, windows only resizable via bottom right.
*Click on a .wmv, it opens in WMP. In IE7 or FF, they give choice to download or open, and FF even lets me pref to automatically download
*Lack of favicons in bookmarks bar
*RSS button unstandard. IE and FF have come to truce with this
*no autoscroll
*middle click doesn’t close tabs, open tabs from bookmarks bar
*No “recently closed tabs”
*no status bar by default
*no inline spell check
*no double click tab bar to get new tab
*crashed twice already, FF crashes maybe once a week
*no adblocking
*no “google/yahoo search suggest”
*backspace doesn’t go back
*edit bookmarks name/address separately, huh?
@John
I started out addressing each one of your points and I realized that each answer basically leans to your personal preferences. Based on the tenor of your comment it is apparent that you are a Windows user. Nothing wrong with that mind you. This is a beta release for Windows. For Mac users a lot of these comments are alien as the user experience has historically been different to that of a Windows user.
I would suggest that you take your listed observations and share them with Apple. There is nothing wrong with what you have outlined but, they don’t do much good leaving them here. Please send them to Apple as they will definitely go a long way to helping native Windows Internet Explorer users to make the switch.
Thanks for your comment.