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May 16, 2004, 08:16 AM
 
Wouldn't it be cool if Apple released Safari for windows, make those mandatory windows sessions much nicer.

I know it is never going to happen though and doesn't really make much sense... but it would bring the browser wars onto MS's own turf...
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May 16, 2004, 08:27 AM
 
Mozilla Firefox is where the browser wars are at Convert all your friends!
     
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May 16, 2004, 08:27 AM
 
I don't think it would make much of a dent in the Windows community. Plus Apple isn't really making any money off of it like with iTunes+iPods.
     
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May 16, 2004, 08:42 AM
 
Originally posted by Krypton:
Mozilla Firefox is where the browser wars are at Convert all your friends!
yeah firefox is great
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May 16, 2004, 10:09 AM
 
Originally posted by dice:
Wouldn't it be cool if Apple released Safari for windows, make those mandatory windows sessions much nicer.
Not going to happen, but it's feasible that there could be some KHTML-based browsers on Windows with decent UEs. Anyway, as others have said Firefox is pretty palatable.
     
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May 16, 2004, 10:58 AM
 
It would be nice, but I would rather have Apple work on something else... something more iApp like.
     
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May 16, 2004, 11:08 AM
 
Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
It would be nice, but I would rather have Apple work on something else... something more iApp like.
How about optimizing the OS, the farmeworks so we could use our macchine with less ram/disk.
How about working harder on the compiler.
     
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May 16, 2004, 11:37 AM
 
Originally posted by Ludovic Hirlimann:
How about optimizing the OS, the farmeworks so we could use our macchine with less ram/disk.
How about working harder on the compiler.
I agree. Just one thign bugging me today. I copy over files to a fodler via the network, bam, they don't show up i nthe folder. I have to close it, re-open it, and so on, jsut to get to see them.

It's something so simple, but yet it seems so far fro mthe minds at Apple.
     
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May 16, 2004, 12:22 PM
 
It wouldn't have to be Safari, a KHTML based browser would be real useful for Web dev. Lot's of small company's don't have a mac to test stuff on a KHTML browser for Windows would be the next best thing. (real useful for me at work)
     
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May 17, 2004, 01:22 PM
 
Why not just port OS X to Windows (Windows, not x86) and be done with it? That way everybody gets his cut.

I can see the box now:

Mac OS X 10.4
System Requirements: Microsoft Windows XP
     
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Jun 7, 2004, 03:54 AM
 
Originally posted by dice:
yeah firefox is great
Firefox totally rules, and is my default browser. Safari got poofed a long time ago

     
   
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