Apple has now fixed this, but their original advertising page for Safari 5 didn't display correctly in any browser. Including Apple's. Here's how it looked originally in Safari 4 (Windows). We tested it on the iPad and the iPhone, and it had the same error.
I know you are trying to be funny, and it is, but...
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Looks like Firefox for the win!
"Why should Apple deny those of us using capable browsers a cool experience just to accommodate those using a crappy browser."
It's a shopping site. If you want to attract customers, you do so based on the lowest common denominator, otherwise it's a business process failure, and you lose customers because of an inferior shopping experience.
"I think its acceptable to serve IE a slower experience until MSFT gets its browser act together."
You're obviously not a web developer then.
Did I mention: it's a bloody shopping site!
It's bad in Firefox, and nearly as bad in Opera too. Chrome isn't nearly as fast as Safari either, and it uses the same layout engine!
FYI: Safari 3 and every previous version was a buggy pig, and Apple express-tracked 4 and 5 to try to distance themselves from those versions as quickly as possible.
"My only complaint with Safari so far is I see no way to block Flash"
Delete the plugin.
I feel like I'm the only Windows and Mac user who still enjoys using Safari on their PC.
Just installed Safari 5 on my Windows PC. Seems very much the same apart from a couple of things.
Just finished watching the Apple keynote that I downloaded through iTunes. Very disappointed with what was announced, apart from iPhone 4. Everything else that was talked about was already done in their previous keynote earlier this year.
clindhartsen said:
"Yup, all bow to the great coders in Cupertino. ;)
iTunes, Safari, what's to hate when you're a Windows user? I mean, it's only a few screwed up web pages and a program that takes a minute to load..."
Kind of like how Word, Excel & Powerpoint load & run much faster on Windows than a Mac? Word 2008 takes about 5-10 seconds just for the recent items menu to display on 3.0 Ghz iMac.
My guess is that the Chrome browser will also run faster on the Google's Chrome OS.
Who would have imagined that a company's software runs better on the platform they develop than on a competitors one.
@rr0de74@live.com
"The reader fuction in the new Safari looks like a blatent rip off of...."
It should. They did use code from Readability. It's in the credits, and the Readability guys know about it.
Saying it's a blatent ripoff kind of ignores the fact that Readability was licensed to be used in this manner.
"My only complaint with Safari so far is I see no way to block Flash. An ad-blocker would be nice too, but I can live without it given Safari's speed and (hopefully) stability."
I use both of these, and I think they work fine.
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