News Apple takes a Safari into Windows territory |
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| Written by Matt Chapman | |
| Tuesday, 12 June 2007 | |
 Some people may have expected the biggest news to be coming out of the Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco to be more info on the iPhone. But Steve Jobs has used the Mac meetup to launch a Windows version of the Safari web browser.
A public beta of the Safari 3.0 web browser for Windows is now underway , with the software running on Windows XP or Vista machines. The file weighs in as a 28MB download as it bundled with the QuickTime media player. It will have its work cut out capturing market share, with Internet Explorer hoovering up 78 per cent and Firefox currently in second spot with 15 per cent. But Steve Jobs reckons its killer aspect is its speed, with the Apple website claiming it has "blazing performance". That's not the case with the early code, according to Peter Griffin at the New Zealand Herald. "Unfortunately, my early user experience hasn't been good. Initial thoughts: it appears no faster than Firefox, in fact, Safari was pretty slow opening web pages," Griffin said. The first bugs have also been found in the software, less than a day after it was released on the web. David Maynor, a consultant at Errata Security, said on his blog that a single afternoon of throwing random data at Safari's inputs - aka "fuzzing" - had found six denial-of-service flaws and two remote execution bugs. Safari's main selling point could be that it will be the browser of choice for the upcoming iPhone. That means the small applications written for the iPhone by third party developers will run in Safari. |
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