Surreal: Safari 3 for Windows!
As all Apple fans know, the WWDC is currently going on and Leopard with all its sibblings is demonstrated. But what a shock this is. I don't think anyone, not even the competition, predicted this move! Safari 3 is coming to Windows, so it won't be a Mac exclusive anymore!
Safari currently holds the third position in the browser market, a tremendous effort as it has been only available for Mac OS X. Currently that means 18 million Safari users with a marketshare of 4.9%. In reference IE has 78%, Firefox 15%, and the rest 2%. I think this move can only be described as most welcome. More competition is good, especially from a fine rendering engine such as WebKit which also shows on Windows that it surpasses JavaScript performance of IE and Firefox. The cause of this move? Probably that next to Macs, the iPhone will have a full fledged Safari bundled and to make the entire web move to Safari compatibility (and testing), why not open up the web browser to everyone?
What will Safari 3 bring? Draggable tabs (into new windows), a good RSS feed reader, search bar, pop-up blocking, simple interface (good for IE/Firefox users), ability to extend basic functionality (but not like Firefox), standards compliancy (first to pass ACID2), speed (superb JS performance) and much more.
The release of the first test release of Safari 3 for Windows and Mac is be available now from Apple's website. Let's hope they don't screw up the software like QuickTime and iTunes on Windows, the Mac releases are often much nicer.
Update: Apparently they did screw up, where this release is very unusable on Windows and Mac; such as crashing, losing text and lots of security vulnerabilities. Use it at your own risk!
Update 2: Windows users can update to 3.0.1 for security fixes; Mac users don't have a new release as it doesn't affect them.
http://apple.slashdot.org/apple/07/06/12/0120230.shtml
I installed Safari too, but I quickly uninstalled it again. Typing anything in an input field makes Safari crash, clicking that book icon or the plus icon makes Safari crash too.
Yes, it displays ACID2. But it doesn't display the google results page like it should, nor a lot of other pretty basic sites. Oh, and did I mention that I would like to change some settings but the settings that I would like to set are not available? Like disabling font smoothing, or putting the progressbar somewhere else.
Resizing the window isn't possible by dragging the border either. Things like this show me that Safari doesn't bring a cross platform browser. Instead, it brings a cross platform Mac experience. And it's doing a very bad job with that looking at the trouble it has.
Alright, it's still a beta but atleast make sure the standard stuff works before you release something. If the first thing Safari does when you click a button in the interface is crashing, I would say it's still an alpha release.
Hi All,
can any one suggest me how to avoid resizing of a
popup window for a safari browser.
I tried with resizable=0 and resizable=no as arguments
to window.open(..) but, theyare not working.
Please, help me in solving this issue.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
LaxmiKanth
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