What he neglected to detail is the fourth version of Safari: the one for the iPhone. Jobs also mentioned that there are three versions of Safari: one for Mac OS X, one for XP and one for Vista. A quick glance at confirmed that a Windows version of the open-source project has recently been seeded. An obvious example would be Safari, but a slew of apps use WebKit, including Mail, BBEdit, Coda and the iTunes Music Store. For those who don't know, WebKit is the application framework that allows for developers to quickly access the Web on their Mac OS X application. As for the why, step back, see the pieces and how they fit together.Īs I watched Jobs' speech again and tinkered with Safari, I realized Apple hadn't just ported over Safari willy-nilly Apple had to port everything that makes it run, and that meant WebKit. So what do we have? A free, speedy Mac-developed browser for Windows users. Speed was a major emphasis when it came to Safari.)
(To drive this point home, Jobs even displayed a demo of how quickly Safari opens pages at WWDC. Javascript also shows obvious speed increases. I didn't benchmark it, but I can say it is indeed faster than either one. Apple says this browser renders HTML twice as fast as Internet Explorer 7 and 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2. People said the same thing when comparing OS X's rendering engine to MacOS 9 - just as those accustomed to the way fonts are rendered on Windows are making comparisons.ĭespite some beta hiccups, various reviews have confirmed one consistent fact: Safari is fast. This reminds me of the original complaints about font rendering on Mac OS X. While this is a matter of personal preference, most of the rendered Web pages I looked at bear no difference to those rendered in Safari on the Mac platform. Safari's text rendering is noticeably softer than that used by other browsers, and some users have complained that the font appearance looks blurry. Interestingly, a division has opened up between those who like the way Safari renders text and those who don't. No need to wait 'til the first Tuesday of next month. Apple responded by releasing an updated version of the Windows build. Considering the fact that the software is beta, flaws are not entirely unexpected. Security has been an issue, too, as several security analysts found flaws in Apple's code. Similarly, there have been numerous Windows user reports that Safari is crash-prone and unpolished, some even saying it lacks some features found in other browsers, like the drag-and-drop bookmarks sidebar found in Firefox. Granted, the iTunes ride hasn't been without its share of bumps, but that hasn't stopped hundreds of millions of copies from being downloaded.
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