{"id":39,"date":"2007-06-14T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T14:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/safari_windows\/"},"modified":"2011-06-22T07:34:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T11:34:01","slug":"safari_windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/posts\/safari_windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Safari for Windows: No Thanks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m with many others, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enavigo.com\/2007\/06\/12\/safari-for-windows-nobody-needs-it\/\">Yuval<\/a>, in saying that Apple porting Safari to Windows is unfortunate.  Web developers have basically got 3 main browsers to deal with right now, and adding a 4th isn&#8217;t going to help.  IE6 is dying, but still prevalent.  IE7 isn&#8217;t great, but is obviously a force to be reckoned with.  Firefox is bloated and slow, but comfy and relatively painless to develop against.  Safari is outdated, buggy and less standards-compatible than IE7 or Firefox, often intentionally so (try styling a submit button).<\/p>\n<p>The big claim Apple makes is page rendering performance.  Firstly, I hope nobody takes Apple&#8217;s performance numbers seriously, they&#8217;ve been flat out lying about them across the board for a decade or more.  Even if the stats are legit, picking a browser based on page rendering speed is silly, it&#8217;s like buying a car that goes 200mph instead of 150mph, when you live in Los Angeles and spend most of the day in slow traffic anyways.<\/p>\n<p>I think Apple ported Safari to force people to support it, since it&#8217;s often sidelined due to low usage and its quirky behaviors.  I&#8217;m really loathe to support a browser that offers no new features yet has a unique set of drawbacks.  The solution here is for Apple to abandon the KHTML core and put it&#8217;s overstated development resources into the Gecko engine, giving them the ability to Mac-ify and brand a browser, but not impose increased costs on web developers.  They should look to their own successful Airport line for how you can drive adoption, leverage\/strengthen a standard, and maintain a strong brand at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think Apple ported Safari to force people to support it, since it&#8217;s often sidelined due to low usage and its quirky behaviors.  I&#8217;m really loathe to support a browser that offers no new features yet has a unique set of drawbacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18,3],"tags":[287,288,289,286],"series":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-mac","category-software","tag-browsers","tag-firefox","tag-ie","tag-safari"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1AkJt-D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efsavage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}