Advertisement
Promo

Office applications Toolkit

Apple launches Safari for Windows

David Meyer ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 20 Mar 2008 16:17 GMT

  • Email
  • Trackback
  • Clip Link
  • Print friendly
  • Post Comment

Apple has released the first version of its browser, Safari, for the Windows operating system.

Safari 3.1, which was launched on Tuesday, will run on Windows XP or Vista and, of course, Mac OSX. Apple released a beta for the Windows-supporting version in June last year.

Apple has claimed that the browser is the fastest available for Windows. In a Tuesday statement, Cupertino said it "loads web pages 1.9 times faster than [Internet Explorer] 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2 [and] runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers".

"Safari 3.1 for Mac and Windows is blazingly fast, easy to use and features an elegant user interface," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide product marketing, on Tuesday.

According to Apple, Safari 3.1 is the "first browser to support the new video and audio tags in HTML 5 and the first to support CSS animations". The browser is free to download.

  • Email
  • Trackback
  • Clip Link
  • Print friendly
  • Post Comment

Did you find this article useful?
532 out of 538 people found this useful


Company/Topic Alerts

Create a new alert from the list below:







Video icon

Video

Discussions

182706 182706

translation

Saturday 4 July 2009, 12:15 AM

1 comment
Moley Moley

More on Moblin

Friday 3 July 2009, 7:59 PM

4 comments
whbs whbs

Microsoft US-UK ripoff again!

Friday 3 July 2009, 7:54 PM

1 comment

Vista Upgrade Blog

PreSales Canabalize Retailers' Opening...

(My attempt at writing a tabloid headline.) A Very Interesting Microsoft event just occurred. Microsoft is offering at a deep discount and through direct retail sale their FUTURE... More

Post a comment

Windows 7 on a Read-only Flash Drive?

Considering that the price of a 4GB USB flash drive has been as low as 5 dollars on close-out specials, financially it wouldn't make sense UNLESS Microsoft decides to go into the Flash... More

Post a comment

Bizarre Windows 7 Downgrade/Upgrade Po...

Over at the ZDNet U.S. site, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes has posted about what will apparently be a new low in bizarre downgrade/upgrade policies involving Windows 7, Windows Vista and Windows... More

4 comments


Skip Sub Navigation Links to CNET Brand Links

Help

Become part of the ZDNet community.

Newsletters