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Has anyone tried the Beta 3 of the Apple Safari browser for Windows?

http://www.apple.com/safari/

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I'm using it right now. I'm typically a Firefox user (I don't use MSIE). I've only had it since earlier this evening, but it seems to load pages as faster or faster than Firefox, which for me has always run much better than MSIE. I do miss the spell check from Firefox. I tend to omit letters when typing quickly on bulletin boards. The red squiggly line is helpful.

While it

The post above was all that Safari sent for a whole paragraph's worth of text! It's all screwed up when it comes to interpreting the operation of the "US International" keyboard operation.

Not ready for prime time yet, methinks.

I didn't like it...only because I couldn't figure out how to turn off Safari's version of "ClearType" (where it adjusts the typefaces to look "clearer" on a flat panel monitor). On a CRT monitor, it just looks silly (to my eyes).

Other than that, I see no reason to choose any of IE7, FireFox, or Safari over the other...

Daryl Fletcher wrote:I tried it for a couple of minutes. It has potential, but it's certainly very "beta" right now.

I find it very interesting that Apple is doing this.

I'm sure that this has little to nothing to do with market share, and everything to do with the pending release of the iPhone.

...or to save you the trouble of perusing the link:

Leander Kahney wrote:There's only one problem with that scenario -- Safari sucks. A lot of Mac users won't run the browser (I'm one of them), so why would anyone run it on Windows?

On my Mac, Safari is buggy and unreliable. It's always crashing, and it doesn't offer basic features like remembering all the tabs you have open after you quit (or more likely, after it crashes). Until now, it didn't even warn you before closing multiple tabs, although the new version of Safari fixes this.

Firefox is getting a little bloated these days, but it's a better browser.

the elephant wrote:Never buy version 1.0 of anything.

Not even an iPhone?

the elephant wrote:I RARELY introduce BETA software to mine . . . BECAUSE IT IS STILL NOT FINISHED.

Ever notice how there are software users but never "beta users"? Beta software should only really be used, debugged, and complained about by beta testers. If someone doesn't know how to fix the code, they have no right to complain.

I think it has a lot to do with market share, but as mentioned earlier, I think that the iPhone has even more to do with this release. I've got the feeling that many of iPhone's factory-installed applications are already WebKit-type things, just like the widgets from Dashboard. That also makes me guess that the Ajax/Web 2.0 approach to iPhone 3rd-party app development has something to do with Dashboard's core technologies.

I use Safari a lot more than Firefox on my Mac. Firefox only gets opened up for a couple specific websites.

I like Safari on Mac .... but some web pages seem set up in a way that isn't "Safari friendly". I'm wondering if this would pose the same issues or worse (?) if Safair was ported to a PC....

Thoughts?