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There used to be a Safari for Windows. No one used it so Apple dropped support.
by freehunter 7y ago
There used to be a Safari for Windows. No one used it so Apple dropped support.
- K0SM0S 7y agoMore specifically, Apple never made it good enough compared to alternatives, so no one used it. It eventually died at the hands of its maker.
- wlesieutre 7y agoIMO what killed it was the text rendering. They brought their font smoothing over from Mac OS and that's not what Windows users are acclimated to. It might be more "correct" in some ways, especially from a graphic design / typography standpoint, but it looks fuzzy when you put it next to ClearType on the same screen. https://damieng.com/blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosophies-of-windows-and-mac-os-x https://damieng.com/blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosoph... https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-apples-font-rendering/ https://blog.codinghorror.com/whats-wrong-with-apples-font-r...
- mavhc 7y agoWell, there was Mac GUI toolkit for Windows, which Safari and iTunes used, wasn't really Safari for Windows