Safari – First Reactions
Seeing all of the attention, I have just downloaded a new browser, Safari which is supposed to be lightning fast and a quantum improvement over IE and MF. Simon F will likely tell us that he’s been using it for years, but this is the first time that those of us in the Microsoft Windows and Vista worlds have had a chance to see what it looks like.
It downloaded quickly, and I’ve played with it for an hour or so. It has some useful features, though I prefer the look, feel and speed of Mozilla Firefox.
I don’t know why but creating blog posts is tougher, since the command menu is not available and one has to remember the rudimentary HTML and XML which is used in blogs like this.
One useful feature is SnapBack – Safari marks certain webpages as SnapBack pages. When a page is marked for SnapBack, you can quickly return to it after opening other webpages.
Safari gives us PC users a no-risk way to sample Apple software [Safari is free], and possibly an incentive to switch to a Mac computer or buy an iPhone.
To ensure there are enough programs for interested buyers, Jobs also offered Safari’s underlying Web technologies to outside software developers so they could write programs for Apple products, including the iPhone, which Simon F covets so much.
I’m a Firefox user, Simon, though I’ll turn to Safari when FF crashes, as it does now and then — probably because I load it down with tons of add-ons, which is why I prefer it to Safari.
Interestingly I find FF more reliable and just as fast as Safari.
Pity that the OneNote and Adobe web capture features only seem to work on IE