Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 20th Mar 2008 21:37 UTC
Apple has released the first version of its browser, Safari, for Windows. Safari 3.1, which was launched on Tuesday, will run on Windows XP or Vista and, of course, Mac OSX. Apple released a beta for the Windows-supporting version in June last year. Apple has claimed that the browser is the fastest available for Windows. In a Tuesday statement, Cupertino said it "loads web pages 1.9 times faster than [Internet Explorer] 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2 [and] runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers". Don't think you have Safari for Windows installed? You might want to check again.
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RE[2]: Probably a case of too little, too late.
by Havin_it on Fri 21st Mar 2008 12:54
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RE[2]: Probably a case of too little, too late.
by wirespot on Fri 21st Mar 2008 22:01
in reply to "RE: Probably a case of too little, too late."
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I develop on Linux and test on Windows with FF/IE/Opera/Safari. I don't need anymore to find a Mac to test my stuff.
You can use Konqueror, there's significant overlap between KHTML and WebKit. And there are WebKit ports for Linux. On Debian you can install epiphany-webkit which is as you can guess Epiphany using the WebKit engine instead of Gecko. And then there's also Midori which also uses WebKit, but I haven't found ready made deb's.
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2008-03-18
I can't tell if this launch is too late, but I welcome it: I develop on Linux and test on Windows with FF/IE/Opera/Safari. I don't need anymore to find a Mac to test my stuff.
BTW Firefox 3b4 is definitely a nice piece of software.