Apple has released a public beta of their
Safari browser version 3, including a
Windows-version.
Here are the top reasons Apple wants you to know:
- Blazing Performance
- Elegant User Interface
- Easy Bookmarks
- Pop-up Blocking
- Inline Find
- Tabbed Browsing
- SnapBack
- Forms AutoFill
- Built-in RSS
- Resizable Text Fields
- Private Browsing
- Security
That list looks pretty compelling! I might add another reason, especially for web developers: it is the easiest way to know how your website might look on an Apple. If you install it together with Firefox 1.5 in the
free Microsoft VirtualPC with IE6, you can easily test IE6, IE7, Safari 3, Firefox 1.5 and Firefox 2.0 on a single Vista or XP machine without much trouble.
Update: In my follow-up post, I list no less than
22 problems with Safari on Windows that I've encountered in the first hour of usage. Suffice to say that I have uninstalled it now, and I'll revert to my
previously reported method of cross-platform checking.
Labels: Apple, browser, IE, Microsoft, Safari, Windows
