Don’t want to look through the various live text coverages around the web? Here, we’ve made an easy-to-read list of what Steve Jobs announced. Basically, it was all about Leopard, Safari, and iPhone.
Leopard
- New Menubar
- New 3D Dock
- Stacks - keeps your desktop clean
- Consistent window look
- Prominent active window
- New Finder with Quick Look, Sidebar, and Cover Flow View
- Leopard is 64-bit
- Ships with Boot Camp
- New iChat
- Time Machine - search back in time for lost files, backups entire hard drive automatically
- WebClip - Easy way to create your own Dasboard widgets
- Spaces - Multiple desktops
Safari
- New Safari 3 Public Beta
- Windows version now available
- Many new features such as SnapBack, Private Browsing, and blazing performance
iPhone
- Full support for Web 2.0 and AJAX
- No iPhone SDK
June 13th, 2007 at 12:44 am
As a PC user and quasi designer I am so happy to have Safari for windows. The ability to see how certain sites on Safari is such a useful tool for those of us not cool enough to have a Mac.
I will say this though, there’s a bit of a flaw in it. If you don’t have Lucida Grande Bold and Lucida Bold in your font folder the text doesn’t appear anywhere. Essentially you get the pictures, but no menu items, site text or anything. I was able to find a fix though…
The Fix
I’ve read in other places that even without the fonts it was able to work for some people, but my experience was that it wouldn’t work without this fix.
Cheers,
Ryan
June 13th, 2007 at 3:22 am
# Full support for Web 2.0 and AJAX
Well yeah - but the phone isn’t 3G, so having graphic-rich interactive web content is pointless because you won’t get anywhere with it, it will take days to just load something!!!
As for Safari - they don’t even corner the Mac groupies market, how do they think it can compete with Firefox in a Window’s users market?! Apart from the fact Firefox rules in terms of features and stability, it is also the only really cross platform browser that is stable and runs similar in the major operating systems like Solaris, Linux, Mac and Windows.
I think Safari on Windows is a good thing though, maybe once the vunerabilities come flooding out then Mac user’s will stop touting security as a major Apple software quality. Being a tiny fish in a big pond isn’t the same as being secure!!
November 7th, 2007 at 9:57 am
lol, big fish tiny pond, anyway i had safari for my windows and it had way too many problems, i’d rather even opera which by the way is much faster for me than safari. The way that mac focuses on bashing windows shows just how great their products are! The hype is greater than their stuff.