Tuesday, June 19, 2007

-= Safari for Windows =-


well i'm writing this post from Apple's Safari browser Beta 3 for Windows. I've been using it now all day and I have to say I'll be switiching back to FireFox tomorrow.

The Good Points:
 - It's great for development use. ie I can now check a website displays properly on a mac without having to use one.
 - It's clean and pretty and the font smoothing is really nice.
 - It's fast.

The Bad Points:
 - Ad blocking is a little sporadic
 - The scrolling is too slow
 - Its completely un-customisable
 - The RSS is not as good as LiveLinks in FireFox
 - Theres no home button on the Beta
 - There's no drop down menu on the back button
 - There's no drop down menu on the address bar

All in all I will keep it to test websites I make, but it won't be my default browser. 
If you look at the videos on the apple site, they haven't even got safari as their default browser... and I wonder why?