Listening to this is your reaction, " So what ?? I have IE and Firefox that's great on Windows." -Then, its time you gave a second thought about it.
I am one of the greatest fans of Apple and its charismatic CEO Steve Jobs. I liked the way he presented the iPod to the world. Especially theiPod Nano. I'll publish an article about Nano, right now lets talk abt Safari.
I downloaded the beta version of safari 3 and I just love it. I use it for all my browsing activities. I loved the interface right from day 1. Safari is quite elegant and it lets you focus on browsing rather than focusing on the web-browser. I loved Firefox but the design just wasnt right.
I remember reading this in one of the semisters of my college - Subject : Computer Graphics.
" when presented a canvas( screen ) to an user the most focused part of the screen is the Top Right corner and the Bottom Left corner. The focus is progressively increasing from the Top Left Corner to the Top Right Corner and progressively decreasing from the Top Right Corner to the Bottom Right corner.
similarly, the focus is increasing from the Top Left Corner to the Bottom Left Corner and progressively decreasing from the Bottom Left Corner to the Bottom Right corner"
In essence,if you are advertising for four logos placed on four corners of your screen, you must be getting more money for the ones placed on the Top Right corner and the Bottom Left Corner.
- This is where I feel Apple has an advantage over the IE or the Firefox. Whereas IE and Firefox have their progress bars near the bottom right corner of the screen - the least focused area, Safari has its progress bar on the address field. there you go, Apple designers are the one of the best in the world.
If you have an instinctive liking to Safari, Now you know why..
It has other advantages as well - I shall complete this post ASAP.
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hey...1st of all welcome to blogging... :)
'n ur 2nd post is on one of my fave topics...me too a big apple fan...
having worked on MAC, i can tell personal handedly how the other guys in the market are doing a catch up game...
But having said tht...there's still lot of problems... you dont have the huge database of plugins, which is a big minus, and then again me an opensource person...and thats one thing i hate abt Appple...for a company which is a big consumer of Open Source, they hardly give anything back to the community...
Darwin borrows heavily frm FreeBSD...and what do we have...still no official ipod support for linux, no iTunes for linux!
But good news is, now the best graphical desktop/effects available is not on Windows or Apple but Linux... :)
neways me rambling on here...so let me stop... :)
thanks,
I feel Apple is at the pinnacle of innovation ; while Microsoft is losing it..
The plug-ins - I'm sure they'll pop up
btw, you are welcome to comment
About the status bar implementation, i truely agree that Firefox didnt do it .. but if u had a chance to look at the Opera browser .. Its done already .. I would personally feel in terms of GUI .. Opera is better than Safari .. but there are differences .. and major advantage of Safari is that its an Apple Product !!! but i really felt nothing extra ordinary or great about the product .. I do admire Apple for their iPhone and iPod products and Mac "looks" great.
oops, i cant go against my project lead (Aravinda) .
"whatever you say is the truth"
That was not my comment.
I liked firefox over IE expecially the tabbed pages. I found that the loading time for firefox is bad, it takes a lot of time for even browsing, IE is ok, but the speed you showed in safari is good. I will try it out sometime. I liked the drag and drop feature very much.
Things not there in Safari [just a sample]
* Cant view the http address when you just mouse over the link. Present in Firefox & IE.
* When you middle click the link, the link is opened @ the end of all the tabs opened in the Browser,
but not next to the tab related to. Present in IE7.
* No Restoring of the session when Safari Crashes, present in Firefox. Yes, Safari crashes !!!!
-I am ur PESIT friend.
arvind,
look at the versions of IE and Firefox. They have been thru a series of major release. I'm sure Safari'll catch up.
Thought of Pull ur leg one more time ;-) Click
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