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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Member since:2005-08-19
Some feature!
Safari fonts look absolutely awful on my PC.
With the default font settings, the L's are completely orange, and many other letters have a distracting orange hue. Ever tried pushing your fingers against an LCD screen (not an expensive one!) to see the colors shift and change? Same effect.
Vista/IE/Firefox look fine because ClearType is properly configured on my PC.
I tried the other three font smoothing options in Safari, but they look even worse. Safari needs some advanced options to fix whatever font smoothing settings Apple has misconfigured by default on my PC:
HP w2207 LCD
8800 GTS 512
Vista Home Premium x64
...or at least provide an option to switch to ClearType.
On a side note, many older public releases of Quicktime on the Windows platform used to have this problem, along with horrendous clipping/redrawing problems that made Quicktime's UI worse than some of the worst beta software I've used. (I mean, sometimes only a few controls out of the whole Quicktime window would actually be shown when the app was first opened.)
Does Apple have some sort of longstanding problem with writing/testing Windows software?
Oddly, iTunes has always looked fine to me. o.0
Member since:
2005-06-29
Fuzzy fonts in Safari was a *problem* that has been solved. What you have now, is a matter of tasty, like you said, of different rendering approaches.
If anyone found Safari's fonts "fuzzy" in first betas, you may want to try again and see if you still find the same "fuzziness". (and you may also, try different rendering settings in the preferences' window)