[General] Safari on windows!

[Burhan Khalid]

bashar abdullah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Safari does have a set of plugins, however remain far away from level of 
> Firefox. Total I can see is less than 100 on the Pimp my safari.
> 
> As for ACID test, there are multiple tests. I attached some photos 
> before. Which one are you referring to here?

http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/

> 
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Burhan Khalid <burhan at kuwaitnet.net 
> <mailto:burhan at kuwaitnet.net>> wrote:
> 
>     bashar abdullah wrote:
> 
>         Well, the snapshots are from Firefox 3 :)
> 
>         Is there anyone here who didn't update?
> 
>         Safari did crash on my first attempt. However it's not so
>         frequent now, still, it has no plugins, nothing much to do than
>         browsing unsafely and quickly.
> 
> 
>     I have been using Safari on Windows since it was first released, and
>     it does support all the plugins you could ever want.
> 
>     As for ACID, I recently did the tests and the following are my findings:
> 
>     Browsers that pass the test:
> 
>     Firefox 3 beta revision 5 (Firefox 2 fails -- respectable effort)
>     Internet Explorer 8 (also beta) (Internet Explorer 7 fails -- badly)
>     Opera 9.5
>     Safari 3.1.1 (tested on Windows)
>     Safari 2.0.4 (tested on OSX running in Windows)
> 
> 
> 
> 
>         On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Ossama Khayat
>         <okhayat at yahoo.com <mailto:okhayat at yahoo.com>
>         <mailto:okhayat at yahoo.com <mailto:okhayat at yahoo.com>>> wrote:
> 
>            FireFox 3.0 is out! So, you better try that and see the real
>         difference.
> 
>            I tried Safar around a month ago, and it crashed on some times (I
>            can't remember).
> 
>            - Ossama
> 
> 
>            ----- Original Message ----
>            From: bashar abdullah <bashar.abdullah at gmail.com
>         <mailto:bashar.abdullah at gmail.com>
>            <mailto:bashar.abdullah at gmail.com
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>            To: General OpenSource Discussion <general at oskw.org
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>            <mailto:general at oskw.org <mailto:general at oskw.org>>>
>            Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 8:54:17 AM
>            Subject: Re: [General] Safari on windows!
> 
>            Hi,
> 
>            I've had Safari on Windows for a while. It is fast, it does
>         suffer
>            on some Arabic sites sometimes, and it does not have
>         anti-phishing
>            capabilities so it's not recommended as the default browser
>         at all,
>            even by PayPal <http://www.paypal.com/>. I use it when I want a
> 
>            fresh session for quick tasks. Not bad.
> 
>            As for ACID test
>            Safari passes ACID2, got around 75 in ACID3 and an error in LINK
>            message!
>            Firefox passes ACID2, around 71 in ACID3 with no such error
>         message
> 
>            Snapshots attached.
> 
>            On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Majed B. <majedb at gmail.com
>         <mailto:majedb at gmail.com>
>            <mailto:majedb at gmail.com <mailto:majedb at gmail.com>>> wrote:
> 
>                Does it pass the ACID test like the one on Mac?
> 
>                I read somewhere that it doesn't. Can you confirm?
> 
>                On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 3:27 AM, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi
>                <bashar at kuwaitnet.net <mailto:bashar at kuwaitnet.net>
>         <mailto:bashar at kuwaitnet.net <mailto:bashar at kuwaitnet.net>>> wrote:
>                 > http://www.apple.com/safari/
>                 >
>                 > its REALLY fast, not sure why!
>                 >
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