{"id":530,"date":"2007-06-12T09:45:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=530"},"modified":"2007-06-12T09:45:13","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T17:45:13","slug":"safari-on-windows-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/12\/safari-on-windows-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Safari on Windows&#8230; why?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few of us at work were trying to figure out why Apple released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\/\">Safari<\/a> for Windows yesterday.  We came up with a number of reasons against it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It doesn&#8217;t (directly) make them any money.<\/li>\n<li>It does cost them money. Aside from the up front costs of producing it, they&#8217;ll now enter the (endless) cycle of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/06\/12\/safari-on-windows-a-security-risk\/\">patching holes<\/a> that allow people to exploit Windows.<\/li>\n<li>Firefox is the most popular competitor to Internet Explorer, and it seems to have been stuck at the 15% penetration mark for some time now.<\/li>\n<li>If you think there&#8217;s room for a browser that touts itself as being &#8220;really fast&#8221; but has lackluster support for 3rd party extensions, maybe you should have taken a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opera.com\/\">Opera<\/a>&#8216;s success on the desktop. (below 1%)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But, of course, Apple also announced the the &#8220;API&#8221; for building iPhone applications will be Safari.  So, that changed the game a little bit.  Some reasons for putting Safari on Windows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Legitimize the iPhone&#8217;s development platform.  If it works in Safari, it doesn&#8217;t just work on the Mac, it also works on Windows, and on the iPhone.<\/li>\n<li>Allow iPhone developers to develop on Windows.  It&#8217;s a theory, although if that&#8217;s all they wanted, they wouldn&#8217;t need to bundle Safari with iTunes &#8211; they could just offer it as a download from their developer site.<\/li>\n<li>Foster &#8220;the switch.&#8221;  If I&#8217;m on a Windows PC and I use iTunes for my music, and Safari to surf the web and use a variety of web apps, maybe next time I buy a computer I&#8217;ll just get a Mac which has those familiar things on it.<\/li>\n<li>Give them an avenue for pushing web standards.  If they&#8217;re looking to extend web standards to provide for things like, perhaps, special mobile-based extensions, this again gives them a more legitimate\/widespread platform for doing so.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not thrilled, being a web developer, at having yet another browser-OS combination to have to test on.  I also don&#8217;t think that it will be a successful\/popular browser on Windows.  I hardly even use it on my Mac (I prefer Firefox, in large part due to extensions).  But, I&#8217;m interested to see what happens with it.  Anyone else have some good theories?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of us at work were trying to figure out why Apple released Safari for Windows yesterday. We came up with a number of reasons against it: It doesn&#8217;t (directly) make them any money. It does cost them money. 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