Smooth Safari

I happened to turn my PC on this evening.  Not an everyday occurance, I can tell you, what with the vast superiority of my Mac, but sadly the majority of the world still hasn’t come over to the dark side, so every now and then I have to test web sites on that old lumbering beast that is Internet Explorer.  In fact, I have both IE7 and IE6, just to be nice to those dinosaurs who are still living in the 90s.  I looked at my XP desktop, and thought, oh for a gorgeous Apple-like program to cheer up my poor, left-out PC.  And then it hit me – I hadn’t installed Safari yet!

When Microsoft abandoned Mac users by stopping development of Internet Explorer for the Mac, Apple bit the bullet and decided to create their own web browser, with more frills, functionality and fun, and they did a wonderful job.  Sure, it’s not perfect even now, nothing is, but it’s a darn sight better than IE, despite Microsoft’s years of experience.  And recently Apple decided that PC users could have a slice of the action, and released a PC version of their award winning browser, boasting a faster user experience than any other browser available.  A pretty tall claim to make, but so far no one appears to have corrected them, which is a good start.

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