If you are reading this blog, and haven’t figured out that I am a Mac user yet, well, you might be a dunce. That said, those of you who are PC folk have been primarily driven to choose between two web browsers: Microsoft Internet Explorer, which comes on your PC by default, and Mozilla Firefox, the open-source alternative.
You may rejoice, little PC people, you have yet another choice to make in the browser wars. For years, I have been using Apple’s very own Safari web browser, which is the browser bundled with Mac OS X. I have Firefox installed on my Mac, as well, and for some things I have been forced to use Firefox because Safari hadn’t quite been kept up to snuff on Web standards. I have a feeling that this will change, as Apple has recently released a new version of Safari in Public Beta (read that as Nearly Complete, but Still in Testing) to Mac and Windows users.
Now, I have long propagated Mozilla Firefox to my friends who use Windows because I have found it to be more secure and faster than Internet Exploder Explorer. On the Mac front, however, I have been a long time Safari fiend, even though it didn’t work with many Web 2.0 sites such as Google Docs, Google Calendar, or the much beloved Blogger. For those Web 2.0 sites, I would resort to using Firefox, which feels very much like a Windows app in a Mac world. Firefox has just never felt like the Mac experience, and it is quite slow on the Mac.
Well, Apple has updated Safari for Mac, opened it up to the Windows world, and I expect it to stay up to the latest and greatest in Web standards now that it is available to everyone except Linux users.
I encourage all of you Windows readers (and the Macheads) to go and
download Safari 3. If you like iTunes, you’ll love Safari. Oh and Safari is wicked fast, and super secure. I could ramble on some more about all the Apple goodness that is Safari 3, but I’d rather let the Apple dream machine do the talking. Enjoy the video below.
Apple, Review
