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Safari 3.0 For WINDOWS beta
Category: Miscellaneous Software


Item Summary
Apple's web browser, native to the Mac, has finally been ported to Windows XP and Vista. It's a direct competitor to Firefox and IE7 but retains the OSX-esque appearance akin to Mac applications.

Good Points
Bloody fast. Wicked fast. Launches in half the time Firefox does and a week sooner than IE7. It also renders pages in record time and provides the Google selectable search bar on the end of the address bar. Tabbed browsing is supported of course, as is RSS.
Oh, of course, it's free. The marketing power Apple have will help open people's eyes to the world viewed from something other than IE.

Bad Points
Not *quite* as nice looking as it is on the mac, and it's a very plain browser - no unnecessary gadgets or buttons, no clutter. The buttons are labelled graphically, with different emblems to the usual, so technophiles will probably not warm up to the change.
It's also completely useless to blind and visually impaired users. Screen reader software cannot see or map any part of Safari. I imagine Apple dispensed with accessiblity in favour of rendering pages quickly.
The buttons are dark and the window has very poor contrast (black text on grey? Genius.)

General Comments
Well worth a try - I'll be sticking with FF but that said, Safari is faster.
Apple are definitely taking the right tack for winning Windoze users over to the Macverse and fair play to them. it's a cutthroat market and you gotta respect the competition.

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