p2pnet - rss feed: Apple’s new Safari for Windows
p2pnet.net news:- Appple is going head-to-head with Mozilla and Bill and the Boyz in the web browser business.
It’s made posted a free Safari 3 public beta on the Safari website and, “Apple CEO Steve Jobs just announced plans to offer the company’s Safari Web browser for Windows,” the Seattle Post-Intelligencer’s Todd Bishop, quoting jobs at the Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco.
Said Jobs :
… There are 500,000 downloads of Firefox a day. What are we going to do? Well, it turns out there’s over a million downloads of iTunes a day. As a matter of fact, there have been over a half a billion downloads of iTunes to Windows machines. Over half a billion. And so we know how to reach these customers, and we’re going to do exactly that. So there are three different versions of Safari 3. One that runs on Leopard, one that runs on XP and Vista.
Jobs, “also gave the greenlight to third-party development of new applications for its forthcoming iPhone mobile phone,” says the BBC.
“In a u-turn from a previously stated policy, he said developers would be able to build web applications for the device that “extend the capabilities of iPhone… but keep the iPhone secure”.
“Instead of having to test each and every new application themselves, Apple will allow developers to build web applications for the phone which run inside the device’s web browser Safari and which were built on existing web standards.”
The preview software is licensed for use on a trial basis for a limited time, says Apple on its site, adding, “The final version of Safari 3 will be available as a feature in the upcoming Mac OS X version 10.5 Leopard, and will be available as a free download to Mac OS X Tiger and Windows users in October.”
Also See:
Seattle Post-Intelligencer - Apple to offer Safari for Windows, June 11, 2007
BBC - Apple announces Windows browser, June 11, 2007
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June 11th, 2007 at 7:10 pm
Why?
Just get Opera. Or Firefox. Or any one of about a billion rehashes of Internet Exploiter.
Please. If the Man in White offers you the Magic Apple, just say NO.
June 11th, 2007 at 11:35 pm
“Just get Opera. Or Firefox. Or any one of about a billion rehashes of Internet Exploiter. ”
I agree with the opening statement. However, i would rather drink hydrochloric acid than use internet explorer (shudders…).
June 12th, 2007 at 5:17 am
Guess you could say it would help webdesigners test their page on more browers
June 12th, 2007 at 9:33 am
I’ll be interested to see how it stands up in terms of security issues.
June 13th, 2007 at 11:19 am
I know it’s hard to believe, but there are some good remakes of IE. I use Deepnet Explorer on occasion, it’s a nice blend of useful features and web=IE functionality.