Safari 3.0 Review on Windows Vista…Nothing to Get Excited About
Ok, I’ve always been under the impression that Apple had their act together - at least a bit more than that other OS company up in Redmond.
I went into Safari with little idea of what to expect. I didn’t read any other reviews. I had as open a mind as possible for a web designer who has many opinions. You see, this is pretty exciting stuff - if you’re a PC guy - getting to run Apple software on a PC box.
Downloaded and installed without a hitch. And then I opened it for the first time.
Not impressed.
Besides looking like just a different configuration of iTunes, I also noticed that heavy text looked very heavy to the point of smudging on screen. Having gotten used to ClearType and the nice rendering of IE7 (which is even superior to FireFox in my book) it was a bit startling. My vision felt blurry and I my enthusiasm started to fade…when I also noticed Safari doesn’t render with transparent edges on Vista…strange. Ok, ok that’s a bit picky.
Then I tried to find my previous tab.
Anyway, I can get used to those little issues if Safari delivers a superior experience. So I start to type in the address bar, www…what??? Is my wife trying to tell me something?
Now offering suggestions for what I might be searching for is ok to an extent, but pushing URLs of sites I’ve never visited into my address bar is never ok. I thought Apple was suppose to be above integrating poorly designed trial software and advertising into their products, and all the other things that can bog down a user experience. I guess not.
This leaves me with having to relegate Safari to just one more browser to test for (not happy) - and keep using my trusty IE7 and FireFox 2.0 (more happy).
PS. If anyone can offer a reason Apple would insert a bunch of URLs (as above) I’d love to know. Otherwise “Apple, please let me choose the URLs I want to type.
June 19th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Safari is remarkable… Unfortunately, its versions still in beta.
June 19th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Yes. Good point. Let’s hope Apple addresses some of the issues I (and many other reviewers) have brought up.
July 21st, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Hey Nate - Not sure if you now know this, but those bookmarks that Safari inserts come from the bookmarks it ships with.
July 22nd, 2007 at 12:42 am
Hi Angie. Thanks for the comment and for stopping by.
I wasn’t sure if that’s where the bookmarks came from or not. Someone mentioned they might have been from my IE bookmarks, but that never added up.
Built-in bookmarks are annoying either way.