Big moveme,nt with Apple this days. So why not, if you have some free time you can test Safari 3 on Windows.

I installed it but next check this out:
Safari for Windows, 0day exploit in 2 hours. It works !

Next thing i’ve noticed was the fonts difference.

Now that Safari for Windows is available, which goes to great trouble to use Apple’s rendering algorithms, you can actually compare the philosophies side-by-side on the very same monitor and see what I mean.

Windows XP with Firefox

Windows XP with Safari

So how it works…

Where they differ is in philosophy.

* Apple generally believes that the goal of the algorithm should be to preserve the design of the typeface as much as possible, even at the cost of a little bit of blurriness.
* Microsoft generally believes that the shape of each letter should be hammered into pixel boundaries to prevent blur and improve readability, even at the cost of not being true to the typeface.

Joel Spolsky wrotes about this here:
Font smoothing, anti-aliasing, and sub-pixel rendering.

In the end of this Apple trip we can see benchmarks about Safari 3, IE 7 and Firefox speed.

The verdict? Firefox may be getting bloated, but it’s still the fastest Windows browser, particularly for running Google web applications.

Read full text:
Wired News Benchmarks Show Safari 3 Is Slower Than IE 7 Firefox.

Have a nice day !

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