{"id":105,"date":"2007-06-14T23:35:15","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T20:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2007\/06\/14\/apple-safari-3-beta-for-windows\/"},"modified":"2007-06-15T12:48:15","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T09:48:15","slug":"apple-safari-3-beta-for-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2007\/06\/14\/apple-safari-3-beta-for-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Safari 3.0 Beta &#8211; version for Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-uploads\/2007\/06\/safari-3-for-windows-screenshot.jpg\" title=\"Safari 3.0 Beta for Windows\" class=\"imagelink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-uploads\/2007\/06\/safari-3-for-windows-beta.jpg\" alt=\"Safari 3.0 Beta for Windows\" \/><\/a>Safari &#8211; with a brand new Windows version! Sounds almost incredible, but it&#8217;s a fact&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I saw the news by accident &#8211; dropped a look to the new design of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\">Apple<\/a> <em>(MacOS X Leopard, being the reason for the new design, I guess)<\/em>, and from there clicked the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/\">Download Apple Safari 3.0 Beta<\/a><\/em>&#8230; for Windows! How can you resist not to click such a link! :-)<\/p>\n<p>Internet Explorer won&#8217;t have a version for MacOS anymore (unless Microsoft change their mind at some point). The last version was IE 5.2\/Mac and that was ages ago&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And now Apple releases a version of Safari for Windows!<\/p>\n<p>I downloaded the beta  [Safari version 3.0.1 (522.12.2), to be precise] &#8212; I was curious, of course &#8212; I do not have constant access to a Mac, so even only for testing of websites in Safari this version would be of great use for me:)<\/p>\n<p>Three things make impression immediately:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Safari on Windows looks like Safari on Mac;<\/li>\n<li>some Windows functions don&#8217;t work (for example, you cannot scroll the page when you press down the scroll <em>(middle)<\/em> button of the mouse);<\/li>\n<li>font rendering looks very different &#8211; Windows doesn&#8217;t have any influence on the rendering of the fonts &#8211; nor ClearType, nor any other way of anti-aliasing (font smoothing) works&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;So all fonts look bolder and like drawn with graphite pencil. Which is good &#8211; because websites, viewed with Safari 3.0\/Win, will look like (at least in theory) exactly as they would look like on Safari 3.0\/Mac&#8230; and bad &#8211; because I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/typography\/ClearTypeInfo.mspx\" title=\"More on ClearType\">ClearType on Windows<\/a> is better technology for font smoothing from the one I saw in Safari 3.0 Beta\/Win.<\/p>\n<p>Check it yourself &#8211; here are two screenshots from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.456bereastreet.com\/archive\/200706\/safari_now_officially_available_for_windows\/\">456 Berea Street<\/a> <em>(click on the thumbnails to see them in their original size)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-uploads\/2007\/06\/456-bereastreet-apple-safari-3-beta-win.jpg\" title=\"{456} 456bereastreet.com - Safari 3.0 Beta\/Windows (screenshot)\" class=\"imagelink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-uploads\/2007\/06\/456-bereastreet-apple-safari-3-beta-win.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"456bereastreet.com - Safari 3.0 Beta\/Windows (screenshot)\" \/><\/a><a href=\"\/wp-uploads\/2007\/06\/456-bereastreet-firefox-15-win.jpg\" title=\"{456} 456bereastreet.com - Firefox 1.5\/Windows (screenshot)\" class=\"imagelink\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-uploads\/2007\/06\/456-bereastreet-firefox-15-win.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"456bereastreet.com - Firefox 1.5\/Windows (screenshot)\" \/><\/a>To me, text is better legible in Firefox 1.5, than in Apple Safari 3.0. This is because Firefox uses ClearType of WindowsXP, and not its own way of anti-aliasing fonts.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, as a CSS designer, I am only delighted by this fact &#8212; I will be able to see websites in Safari\/Win in the same way as they are seen by the Safari\/Mac users! :-)<\/p>\n<p>I just wonder, is it just on Windows that font smoothing looks not so perfect, or this is just a bug in the new Safari browser for Windows? Maybe someone with Apple Mac will be able to shed some light on this question (and perhaps add a couple of screenshots, too;-)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Safari 3.0 will be soon available for Windows users, and we, poor web designers, forced to take into account the weirdnesses in the rendering of webpages of so many browsers &#8212; IE 7.0, IE 6.0, Firefox 1.5\/Firefox 2.0, Opera 9.x, Safari 2.0\/Mac &#8212; will simply add one more browser to the list: Safari 3.0\/Win:)<\/p>\n<p><em>PS You can follow an interesting discussion on Safari 3.0\/Win at Roger Johansson&#8217;s website: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.456bereastreet.com\/archive\/200706\/safari_now_officially_available_for_windows\/\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.456bereastreet.com\/archive\/200706\/safari_3_beta_impressions\/\">2<\/a><\/strong>:)<br \/>\nPPS I&#8217;ll write maybe a follow-up later, when I have more to say on Safari 3.0\/Win:) For now, it keeps crashing on me&#8230; :-D<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Safari &#8211; with a brand new Windows version! Sounds almost incredible, but it&#8217;s a fact&#8230; I saw the news by accident &#8211; dropped a look to the new design of Apple (MacOS X Leopard, being the reason for the new design, I guess), and from there clicked the Download Apple Safari 3.0 Beta&#8230; for Windows!&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-browsers","category-webdesign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}