Safari on Windows: A Rather Brief Review
August 24, 2007
I’ve wanted to write about this for a long time now. Yes, I’ve missed the Safari going Windows hype. I’ve only try this Safari for Windows about two months now. Though the first month I literally neglected it, since it’s just crash randomly on my PC. Last week after they announced another update for the browser, which promises “better stability”, I decided to try it again (yet still in beta).
Okay I had a love at first sight moment to it’s font anti-aliasing feature. I only found this kind of rendering on Mac system. So looking at the beauty on PC is such a joy. But other than that, shame on you Safari.
They claimed that they are faster than on handling JavaScript, but other says different thing. The sudden random crashes were less, but still happen occasionally. Oh yeah, they don’t provide session restoring. So when your Safari crashes when you open five or so of your important webpage, don’t expect it to comeback when you start another instance.
Faster page loading? Yes, if you compare it to Opera. But with Firefox, I don’t see any difference. Back to JavaScript function, I find it very buggy on different websites. Some AJAX features on some website were not working at all, prove for that: JavaScript drop-down menus were off limit.
The proxy setting options is strangely disabled. So it follows the proxy from the Internet Option setting on Control Panel (which clearly set from the Internet Explorer setting)
Well you can read a full-blown review of Safari 3 here. For me the problems are irritating and I won’t use it for a day-to-day production browser yet. Now I use it for reading feeds and blogs since I love the anti-aliasing rendering. Other than that, though I expect a lot from this browser, it’s just not quite ready yet.
PS: Been trying to use Safari for my wordpress wysiwyg editor to write this post but stuck since it doesn’t provide any necessary (important!) text editing button. It just disappear magicly on Safari. Oh well, back to ScribeFire for now
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Okay, life must go on, right? So with the spirit of Sumpah Pemuda and the recent festive of Pesta Blogger 2007. I officially announce that:
It's just around the corner, not very far away.
The reason? Well you can say that I'm getting bored with Wordpress and I want to try something new. But trust me, I won't move it anywhere else in the future, I will use patvandiest.com as my main blog, always. I promise you that!
So please... please update your bookmark, I will forever graceful if you do that. But if you are reading my blog through my Feedburner account, worry not, I will automatically update the link. That goes to my other social networking related link.
I won't delete this blog, though. I will keep it as past archives of my writings.
So, sorry for this inconvinience. I hope you don't mind. See you at my other room.
Sincerely Yours,
Patrick Gerard van Diest
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