arstechnica.com— Executives from Microsoft and Mozilla have responded to Apple's announcement that Safari will now be available to Windows users.
Jun 13, 2007View in Crawl 4
@kevincannonBut strokeit gestures don't work IN the browser, ie I can't close a tab with with strokeit or go to my mail. I use strokeit and opera so I get gestuers in my browser and gestures in windows.
"also please let me open webpages by url completion using cntl-enter or apple-enter"Safari has URL completion. Type the domain name (such as 'google') and hit enter.
Yeah, here's their response:"So where to for lunch? I was thinking Spago's. It's Three Steak Thursday and that hot chick is working the smoking section today. Hey, did you see they put out Safari for Windows?"::Entire office gives a good hardy laugh, then gets back to doing real work::
Testing out Safari as we speak. It is quicker and I like that but I am seeing something I have not seen in my Firefox browser in a long time. Advertising. Right now, Safari is a nice toy to play with but I will find myself back to using Firefox if there is no way to customize it.
...IE7 has an overhauled rendering engine, with a completely redesigned interface, superb RSS support, and generally superior stability (in my experience! Don't shoot me!).It's still not a particularly fantastic browser, but it's far greater a step up from IE6 than you're presenting it as. Trident's still horrific, but it's *improved*.
Why on *earth* are you being dugg down?Granted, the download numbers aren't going to spike *spectacularly*, but it's a perfectly reasonable point. As astonishing as it may sound, the majority of the world *doesn't speak English*.
To be fair, the IE "Navigation" noise is frankly ridiculously annoying.'Twas one of my main reasons for switching.Yes, I know you can turn it off- but the point is that you shouldn't have to in the first place.
ninj3Jun 14, 2007
@colonelpanicHe never said it wasn't free. He was saying there are better alternatives for the same, free, price.
kazbaedenJun 14, 2007
@kevincannonBut strokeit gestures don't work IN the browser, ie I can't close a tab with with strokeit or go to my mail. I use strokeit and opera so I get gestuers in my browser and gestures in windows.
fahrvergnuugenJun 14, 2007
"also please let me open webpages by url completion using cntl-enter or apple-enter"Safari has URL completion. Type the domain name (such as 'google') and hit enter.
johnnyxmasJun 14, 2007
Yeah, here's their response:"So where to for lunch? I was thinking Spago's. It's Three Steak Thursday and that hot chick is working the smoking section today. Hey, did you see they put out Safari for Windows?"::Entire office gives a good hardy laugh, then gets back to doing real work::
markthegothJun 14, 2007
Im pretty concerned that we are going to see a quicktime/itunes/safari bundle. tbh
thegreatantiJun 14, 2007
IE7 = bottom of the barrel.
slipgateJun 15, 2007
how long did they laugh before they actually responded?
ricknowsaysMay 20, 2008
Testing out Safari as we speak. It is quicker and I like that but I am seeing something I have not seen in my Firefox browser in a long time. Advertising. Right now, Safari is a nice toy to play with but I will find myself back to using Firefox if there is no way to customize it.
cognac77May 21, 2008
You know I never realized the advertisements on Safari. Guess I was just concentrating on what I was looking for, or all the porno got in the way.
airravenJan 1, 2009
...IE7 has an overhauled rendering engine, with a completely redesigned interface, superb RSS support, and generally superior stability (in my experience! Don't shoot me!).It's still not a particularly fantastic browser, but it's far greater a step up from IE6 than you're presenting it as. Trident's still horrific, but it's *improved*.
airravenJan 1, 2009
Why on *earth* are you being dugg down?Granted, the download numbers aren't going to spike *spectacularly*, but it's a perfectly reasonable point. As astonishing as it may sound, the majority of the world *doesn't speak English*.
airravenJan 1, 2009
To be fair, the IE "Navigation" noise is frankly ridiculously annoying.'Twas one of my main reasons for switching.Yes, I know you can turn it off- but the point is that you shouldn't have to in the first place.