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Topic: Safari for Windows: no, really! (Read 8289 times)
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naum
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Joel is an idiot. At least on this matter (well, on others too, he's quickly descending down into Dvorak-bot land…) …I know from what I speak of, as my eyesight is so shoddy that I do notice these things about anti-aliasing. And while it might be true that on the font smoothing on Windows boxes might look better when done by Windows, font displays on Mac OSX are superior to equivalent technology (Clear Type) on Windows. |
"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Apple’s New Safari Hits Korean Ditch
Apple’s newly released web browser for Windows is pie-in-the-sky for Korean users since it fails to display Korean characters properly. Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduced the first Windows version of Safari on Monday to huge international hype.
Safari 3.0, a version of the Macintosh browser that runs on the Windows PC operating system, directly challenges rival Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Apple claims Safari operates much faster than competitors such as IE 7 and Firefox. Apple offered a free download of the beta version of Safari on its website on the day.
When the Chosun Ilbo reporter installed Safari 3 on the Windows XP PC, it operated perfectly when displaying web pages in English, and there were no great problems with Japanese and Chinese text except with the play of some Flash files.
But there is a critical problem for Safari: it has trouble seeing Korean text on web pages. When we entered “chosun.com” in the address box of Safari, the Korean text was not displayed correctly. We then chose “text encoding” from the view menu, but the browser failed to recognize it. No matter what encoding we chose, Korean characters were not displayed.
A software programmer says Apple does not appear to support Korean encoding technology since there are relatively few Macintosh users in Korea. One netizen commented sarcastically, “Apple was brave to release this beta version of the web browser. If Microsoft were in Apple’s shoes, it would come under heavy fire.”
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..I want to see gamma rays. I want to hear x-rays. I want to...smell dark matter...and feel the solar wind of a supernova flowing over me...
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Phildo
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This is especially funny for me since I've lately been railroaded into uses a MacBook for school, and we had to watch Pirates of Silicon Valley in class today. The class, by the way, is called "Computers, Math & the Internet"
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Viin
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I hate the anti-aliasing OS X does, gives me a headache. I feel like my contacts are getting old (and they are brand new!).
Since I also hate how OS X does mouse acceleration, I guess I'll just stick to Windows .. and I was just getting use to OS X ..
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Chimpy
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It all comes down to what you are comfortable with.
I have never been a fan of how Windows looks. It always seems clodgy to me. I can still use it, and usually without complaints, but when I have the choice, I will use a mac. It is a personal preference thing.
One of the major problems of windows versions of Apple software is that they try their best to replicate the look of the Mac versions, which is nigh impossible to do with the differences in how everything is dealt with. You have all kinds of little things that make the graphical user experience noticably different on a basic level. The simplest, and most often overlooked one, is that the default color temperature/gamma/screen resolution (dpi) are considerably different between the two operating systems. The subtle differences are what are most disturbing to people. You notice when something is slightly off what you expect, but sometimes cannot grasp exactly what that difference is which leads to a more negative "feeling" than if the differences are glaringly obvious.
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« Last Edit: June 14, 2007, 01:54:07 AM by Chimpy »
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Chenghiz
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I hate the anti-aliasing OS X does, gives me a headache. I feel like my contacts are getting old (and they are brand new!).
Since I also hate how OS X does mouse acceleration, I guess I'll just stick to Windows .. and I was just getting use to OS X ..
I would be much, much happier using OSX if I could find some way to turn off that mouse acceleration. |
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Viin
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I would be much, much happier using OSX if I could find some way to turn off that mouse acceleration.
I found using the Microsoft Intellimouse drivers seem to help. Since I have a Microsoft Intellimouse anyways, it worked out OK for me. |
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Chimpy
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I hate the anti-aliasing OS X does, gives me a headache. I feel like my contacts are getting old (and they are brand new!).
Since I also hate how OS X does mouse acceleration, I guess I'll just stick to Windows .. and I was just getting use to OS X ..
I would be much, much happier using OSX if I could find some way to turn off that mouse acceleration. Freeware mouse fixit thiny. |
'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Chenghiz
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Golly, thanks!
Safari's faster than Firefox and I don't really get this anti-aliasing problem you people seem to have (you did notice the font smoothing dropdown in preferences, right?). However it lacks a lot of the functionality I have in Firefox; I don't see it becoming my primary browser. It's nice to have for website compatibility testing though.
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Etro
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The find tool is quite nice (ctrl+f), its close to the way Opera's find tool works but looks a bit nicer I think.
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