Apple Releases Safari For Windows

Apple has just released a beta version of Safari 3 for Windows XP and Vista, available on Apple.com.

Here is a screenshot of it, for those who are curious:

Here is my little review of it (probably one of the first reviews, if not the first review, of it on the web, by the way):

They say that it is beta so you can’t expect it to be perfect, but I am still really disappointed. It doesn’t play nice with the Microsoft virtual desktop manager (just like iTunes, it doesn’t disappear when you switch desktops, probably due to some non-standard coding practices), it resizes like shit, and I couldn’t minimize it by click on it in the taskbar. Also, when I did minimize it when it was full screen and when I opened it again, it was no longer full screen.

I am pretty disappointed. Overall it started up fast, but render times were at least 2 times longer than Firefox 2 on my Windows XP comp. Very very disappointing.

On a side note, Apple.com just had a facelift. They make use of some pretty nice AJAX effects now

Update: Wow, It just totally crashed. Hopefully the final version is better

Update X2: I don’t think the problem is with the rendering of text or anything, I just did some tests and mostly text sites (like this one) run fine while sites with lots of graphics render very slowly. Haven’t a clue how Apple is rendering the things so there is no telling why this happens.

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