Safari 3 vs. Firefox 2 and IE7 559
Bobcat writes "Ars Technica has a 'first look' at Safari for Windows, which is interesting because it's written from the perspective of someone new to Safari. It was tested against Firefox 2 and IE7 and aside from the slightly faster page loading, Ars didn't find much to recommend it to Windows users. 'The modest increase in rendering performance is hardly worth the deficiencies, and Safari's user interface simply doesn't provide the usability or flexibility of competing products. If the folks at Apple think that providing Windows users with a taste of Mac OS X through Safari is going to entice them to buy a Mac, it's going to take a better effort than the Safari 3 beta. Even if the final release is more polished and completely bug-free, it still won't be as powerful or feature-loaded as Opera or Firefox.'"
Pshhh... (Score:5, Funny)
Is he kidding? (Score:5, Funny)
Firefox? Safari? IE? (Score:5, Funny)
Bonus points for running the javascript in your head.
Safari is requesting a page to be loaded... (Score:1, Funny)
Apple: Im a MAC
PC: and Im a PC
Apple: PC why do you have that colorful news page with customizable Ajax widgets on your shirt ?
PC: well thats my new web application loaded on Firefox ! I can get all my news, weather and sports media based on my preferences.
Apple: oh wow !, very nice...
PC: Mac would you like to try the new web application out?
Apple: I would love too, however my safari has a few dead animals and I can only support frames at this point... but I can play my ITunes waiting for the non-flash page to load and quicktime to boot up!
PC: Sheesh.. and he calls me bloated...
Re:Safari, and Mac OS X, are better. (Score:5, Funny)
one faith, one land, one volk, one fuhrer!! zeig heil!
Does it come with a brown shirt?
This is the first Safari with Windows (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Horrid UI (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Not the point (Score:4, Funny)
Also, how everyone mewling about how buggy and unfinished it is... HELLO! It's a first release BETA, of course it's unfinished!
Some people... jeez, if Apple released a handheld cure for cancer, they'd complain that it only came in a brushed metal case.
Re:Pshhh... (Score:2, Funny)
You youngins and your fancy graphical internet browsers.
It's all about Links running in my terminal screen!
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Re:Review summary: "It's not the same as FireFox" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Who says it's about making Windows converts? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Pshhh... (Score:5, Funny)
$ telnet slashdot.org 80
...
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: 127.0.0.1
Human parsing FTW! :-p
7 3 2 Duh!? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Safari, and Mac OS X, are better. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Safari, and Mac OS X, are better. (Score:3, Funny)
Come October, Mac OS X will serve everyone with one price, one version, one install: one vision of simple 64-bit desktop goodness.
one faith, one land, one volk, one fuhrer!! zeig heil!
I was thinking "and one ring to bind them"
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Sometimes the fox would lose the bit, that was a dropped bit. We had a lot of dropped bitsback then. And man in the middle attacks, those danged nobles liked to hunt our foxes and take our bits for themselves. We quickly learned not to send coins as bits, as those financial transactions were always targets of those horse riding hackers.
All that foxing back and forth was great high tech stuff, though. It meant that we could find out what happened to the hero in our latest serial we were following. Stories over fox took a while to load, but no longer than a torrent does now days... about two weeks to the chapter.
Then some smarty came up with a bit bag, which we could put several bits in at a time, and send the whole packet with the fox. Then packet loss became a bigger problem, but bit loss pretty much disappeared.
You kids now days with your quality of service and TCP/IP. You don't know how good you have it!
Now get off'n my lawn!
How Is this Perspective "Interesting"? (Score:3, Funny)
Based on all the server logs I look at, just about everyone is someone new to Safari.
Re:Pshhh... (Score:3, Funny)
Watch out for XSS vulnerabilities. Someone might hack into your girlfriend.
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So that's what the blink tag was for...
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We had to slingshot the bits, but since there was no way to know if you got a zero, we had to paint the bits first. Red was 1, blue was 0.
A clever way we increased throughput was to use a repetition code, so each volley would have about 5 of the same bit. It was tiring to do, though, and a lot of bits were wasted when they hit trees.
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That's won't work since he uses Linux.
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Re:Safari, and Mac OS X, are better. (Score:3, Funny)
No, but it does come with a black turtleneck.
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