I just installed Safari 3 beta on my Windows machine, because I have a need. Many of our web clients have at least one person in-house that will check their site on “Safari on the Mac” and there are usually a few tweaks cos Firefox and Safari don’t agree on standards all the time. So we have a few Macs on hand specifically for this reason.
So now Apple has decided that they will give up their channel of Mac buyers that need to check web work in “Safari on the Mac” (I know of at least 3 people currently contemplating a Mac purchase specifically for this reason). Thank you, Apple! And I mean that seriously.
However, I know that you THINK it’s more usable to have to resize a window from the bottom right corner only, and move it at the top only, but I disagree with you. So does Windows, the platform that you’ve brought your product to. I don’t find this snobbery and rudeness to be anything like “a glass of ice water to a person in hell.” I find it to be frustrating and irritating and more like shards of glass to a person with soft skin.
Personally, I find it easier to resize from the upper right corner or top edge when I’m up there, and then move the window with the window’s title bar, a few pixels away (not thousands away). But in all of your snobbery, you can’t admit that maybe this other way is better and play nice in your hosted environment?
And you’re going to make me do all kinds of extra mouse moving for no real reason? Or for “usability?”
Thanks, assholes.
Plus, it doesn’t even work. Like at all. It loads up about 1/2 of the Apple homepage before bombing out, and I can’t even type in the address bar. I can click the button that looks like a spider, but that just uses 100% of one of my CPU cores. I’m sure they’ll fix that stuff, but I’ll put a million dollars on them not fixing the usability issues. Cos they know it all.
Edit 6/26: I reinstalled a third time and it works.