Wandering electrons... but not too far

As was the case at wired news and Ars Technica, Extremetech.com has few nice things to say about the Safari Beta for Windows recently released by Apple. They've decided moreso to give you Ten Reasons Not to Use Safari on Windows.

Their recommendation:

If you really want to be different and superior in terms of browser speed and look, we recommend Opera, which has proven security, plenty of sidebar options, and lickety-split page rendering.

Thanks are in order to iliad for posting this article in the forums today (here and here).

I will add a disclaimer here: All this might give the impression that I have a chip on my shoulder against Safari. This isn't the case. In fact, I thing that the arrival of Safari in the Windows world might actually be a good thing. However, I find it strange that Apple released this not-at-all ready for primetime "beta"... They've GOT to know that the competition on the other side of the fence is pretty darn rude with IE7, Firefox and Opera (especially:D) all proposing top-class browsers these days.

The theory is out there that they did this just to make the Safari browser a bit more familiar to people for the release of the Iphone. Maybe. But really, I think they've done themselves more harm than good here...

EDIT: The day after writing this I found still another article at Eweek.com. The title says it all: "Safari on Windows Falls Short of Top Browsers".

And when it comes to browsers, Eweek knows what they're talking about.