Star Jobs Demoes Leopard, Announces Safari for Windows
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 11th Jun 2007 18:27 UTC
Apple At its Worldwide Developers Conference today in San Fransisco, Apple discussed its upcoming operating system, Mac OS X Leopard. As always, Steve held his keynote speech wearing his well-known ensemble. The keynote dealt mostly with Leopard, while keeping the most interesting part for last. Read on for the details. Update: Read more for a screenshot of Safari running on Windows... Barely.
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SJ got balls...
by Network23 on Mon 11th Jun 2007 18:37 UTC
Network23
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2005-07-11

Challenging both IE7 and FF2. And Safari will win. Common poeple will love it.

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RE: SJ got balls...
by VenomousGecko on Mon 11th Jun 2007 18:47 in reply to "SJ got balls..."
VenomousGecko Member since:
2005-07-06

Safari will have a lot of the same market share problems as Netscape did when IE became bundled with the OS. People will not actively seek out Safari and install it without good reason. The major reason Firefox made large inroads into the desktop was because of the MASSIVE community around it and the security problems that users were facing with IE. I think it is a bit early to say "And Safari will win. Common poeple will love it."

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RE[2]: SJ got balls...
by DigitalAxis on Mon 11th Jun 2007 22:48 in reply to "RE: SJ got balls..."
DigitalAxis Member since:
2005-08-28

Bundle it with iTunes. That'll get it onto people's desktops.
Now, will they USE it?

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RE: SJ got balls...
by Kroc on Mon 11th Jun 2007 19:00 in reply to "SJ got balls..."
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2005-11-10

It looks ugly on Windows. It still may not beat IE & FF, but it will absolutely pressurise Microsoft to stop kicking their heels and start supporting 10 year old standards.

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RE[2]: SJ got balls...
by Xaero_Vincent on Mon 11th Jun 2007 20:21 in reply to "SJ got balls..."
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2006-08-18

People say Safari has problems rendering some types of Ajaxified/Javascript intensive pages because of its use of KHTML.

I dunno. Anyway, I have no use for Safari. FF2 and Opera are fine. If I want a an KHTML browser, I'd use Konqueror.

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RE: SJ got balls...
by monkeyhead on Tue 12th Jun 2007 11:32 in reply to "SJ got balls..."
monkeyhead Member since:
2005-07-11

It's nice to know the mighty Steve cares for the common folk as well as his elite mac aristocracy.

Common people? I guess Mac users really do think they are better people because of the electronics they purchase.

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But...
by s_groening on Tue 12th Jun 2007 11:44 in reply to "SJ got balls..."
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2005-12-13

Where is the Linux version of Quicktime, iTunes and Safari?

-Not that there aren't any alternatives, on the contrary, but rather since it would be a nice way for Apple think differently and for it to broaden the scope of its media offerings considerably...

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RE: But...
by abraxas on Tue 12th Jun 2007 14:16 in reply to "But..."
abraxas Member since:
2005-07-07

Where is the Linux version of Quicktime, iTunes and Safari?

I agree. In fact I think there would be more interest in version of Safari for Linux than Windows.

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