I downloaded this, had a play around with it. I've concluded that its rubbish.
There are a few annoying bugs which I'll let slip seeing as it's a beta, though if I can find them in 30 seconds use I don't see why Apple couldn't. You can't minimise by clicking the taskbar icon, if you minimise a maximised windows it comes back non-maximised and neither process uses Vista's "disappearing/reappearing to/from the taskbar" eye-candy.
Other annoyances are that the address bar's default action is to edit the current address instead of selecting all of it to type a new one. Nobody navigates websites by editing the address- if you click the address bar, you want to type a new one. To do this in Safari you have to click a tiny little button instead! CTRL+ENTER doesn't work, and the automatic fill-in addresses are just dumb (typing engadget tries to go to FEED://www.engadget.com, which doesn't exist, giving a "failed to open page". (Firefox puts the correct protocol, and even when the incorrect one is manually entered automatically corrects it to http://).
I don't like the interface either. The font smoothing is too much, on top of Vista's cleartype which is just fine. You can't move things around on the toolbars like you can in Firefox (Safari only lets you edit the action buttons. Firefox basically lets you move anything, such as the address bar, search box, bookmarks toolbar etc.) And why can't you resize the window from all sides?
Lastly, I just don't like the look of it. All that grey is actually pretty ugly- it's like Windows 95 with rounded corners! There's no consistency either- why does the search box have semi-circular rounded ends, but the address box is a rectangle? Why is the window title aligned centre, but everything else aligned left? Why is the title text bigger than the rest? Why are they still using old-school minimise/maximise/close buttons? How does the blue jelly-bean scrollbar go with anything?!
The minimize/maximize bugs you are talking about are actually features.
Seriously.
If you look at the behavior, it is acting like a Mac application on a Mac. I guess the thinking is that Safari for Windows should act as close to Safari for Mac as possible. Personally I think that is a gross assumption to make because you are forcing someone unfamiliar with the Macintosh platform to understand that it will behave differently, but there you go.
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I downloaded this, had a play around with it. I've concluded that its rubbish.
There are a few annoying bugs which I'll let slip seeing as it's a beta, though if I can find them in 30 seconds use I don't see why Apple couldn't. You can't minimise by clicking the taskbar icon, if you minimise a maximised windows it comes back non-maximised and neither process uses Vista's "disappearing/reappearing to/from the taskbar" eye-candy.
Other annoyances are that the address bar's default action is to edit the current address instead of selecting all of it to type a new one. Nobody navigates websites by editing the address- if you click the address bar, you want to type a new one. To do this in Safari you have to click a tiny little button instead! CTRL+ENTER doesn't work, and the automatic fill-in addresses are just dumb (typing engadget tries to go to FEED://www.engadget.com, which doesn't exist, giving a "failed to open page". (Firefox puts the correct protocol, and even when the incorrect one is manually entered automatically corrects it to http://).
I don't like the interface either. The font smoothing is too much, on top of Vista's cleartype which is just fine. You can't move things around on the toolbars like you can in Firefox (Safari only lets you edit the action buttons. Firefox basically lets you move anything, such as the address bar, search box, bookmarks toolbar etc.) And why can't you resize the window from all sides?
Lastly, I just don't like the look of it. All that grey is actually pretty ugly- it's like Windows 95 with rounded corners! There's no consistency either- why does the search box have semi-circular rounded ends, but the address box is a rectangle? Why is the window title aligned centre, but everything else aligned left? Why is the title text bigger than the rest? Why are they still using old-school minimise/maximise/close buttons? How does the blue jelly-bean scrollbar go with anything?!
The minimize/maximize bugs you are talking about are actually features.
Seriously.
If you look at the behavior, it is acting like a Mac application on a Mac. I guess the thinking is that Safari for Windows should act as close to Safari for Mac as possible. Personally I think that is a gross assumption to make because you are forcing someone unfamiliar with the Macintosh platform to understand that it will behave differently, but there you go.