Safari for Windows is a beta product and is not meant to be compared to FF or IE7 in their released forms. Has everyone forgotten what beta means? Apple appears to have released Safari specifically to support the expected massive community of iPhone users that will want to test their custom web-based apps when the device is released in a few weeks. Just like with iTunes, iPhone’s success will depend on attracting a large audience of Windows users.

But to fault Apple for having bugs in Safari for the PC at this early stage seems unfair. If you’re happy with FF or IE - more power to you. But, if you need to test your stuff so it runs well on the iPhone, you’ll need to use Safari on either a PC or, preferably, OS X.

I don’t think it is Safari slipping, as much as the developers underestimated the task of using a browser designed for OS X on Windows. There is a new article on Betanews, which shows that when closely observed, there were function calls going to the operating system that were not being answered. This is neither the fault of Apple or MS, but, on balance, I’d side with Apple here as it is built on BSD, whereas any revision of Windows by now is a pile of spaghetti code trying to be stacked too high. As I’ve stated before, if MS really wanted to break out, and make good its stupid claims of the near invincibilty of its OS, Vista would not share one line of code with XP or anything before.

just out of curisoity what do you think of opera? iuse it off and on and find it seems to be one of the more secure!