http://www.apple.com/safari/

Beta now available, apple claim its twice as fast as IE and 1.6 times as fast as firefox 2 but reports are that it uses twice as much memory to do it ^^
Give it a go yourself and see

Does not work on x64 though, shows no text which is part of the browser nor does it show any text of any website

Tis quick

News sure travels fast on this interweb

http://www.tekforums.co.uk/posts/list/8214.page

I just tried it and it seems fast they have some work to do.

First of all I opened it and tried to maximise the browser on my second monitor. As soon as I click maximize it disapears and I need to close the browser.

The second thing is back and forward mouse buttons work.


I will try it again after the beta has finished.

it looks like a straight port.  The fact that Safari is turning up on all platforms with no coding changes makes me think that apple has virtualization running properly.  They seem to have spent a lot of time when they changed hardware architecture to IBM making platform independent compilers and universal binaries.  The way they went about it was total overkill for a straight chip change.  They could have just forced the old hardware to work but this universal binary thing bugged me as it seemed to have no real reason.

It does however make sense if you want to become totally hardware independent.



Theres a strong rumour that they were going to exhibit platform independent software at the last expo in San Fran but it got pulled at the last minute because of a deal with Parallels.

Theyve already got bootcamp so you can just suspend one operating system and switch into windows and back instantly.  That was even on the posters of the MAC expo but it wasnt shown due to the last minute changes.

Safari just instantly appearing across phones, everything and looking identical seems too much of a coincidence.  I think apple actually have most of their core OS and software not running platform independent with these universal binaries but theyre not showing it.  Id put money on it being theyve stolen/used some code that parallels uses to do the same thing and theyve not sorted out the legals yet.

Apple I think while they may release the odd software to all I think are using what you say to go more media, they shown their os can work on their iphone and while not a great success the apple tv a dabble (test) into more media devices.

We may see apple media devices popping up all over the place with OSx and other apply applications?