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Safari for Windows Downloaded Over 1 Million Times
ClaraBow writes "Apple reports that it took Apple just two days to reach 1 million downloads of its newest Safari Web browser for Windows. If these downloads manifested into regular Safari users, then we just might have a third major browser on the Windows platform. If Safari can obtain a 10% market share on Windows, then it would further weaken IE's position and give standards-based browsers more leverage with developers."
Indeed. I downloaded it only because it might offer a way to look at our website the way the Maccies do.
I installed it on a Windows 2000 VM and it was a TOTAL PIECE OF CRAP. Almost nothing worked.
I think it mentioned "Windows XP" somewhere so I'll try that this week, but I am not optimistic.
Rendering was crap, text often wasn't displayed at all, proxy didn't work, looks are terrible.
What part of me saying "I wish firefox was the dominate browser" made you think I had an attachment to IE? .... The problem for you is that it's a lot easier to dimiss what I say by just labeling me some MSFT fanboy that isn't objective.
That's interesting because it's so blatently obvious that YOU'RE the one that left his objectivity at the door. YOU'RE the one with deeply entrenched feelings, one way or the other, for a web browser.
So I didn't read much past the first sentence of your (hideously long) post. It's clear that if you were so incredibly wrong in your very sentence it probably wasn't going to get much better after that.
PS. I'm writing this on FireFox.