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DEL.ICIO.USA less than perfect Safari? Oh my goodness
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
It would be nice if all software came onto the market in perfect form. And - like the self-sealing tires on my car - adjusted its innards automatically when something the designers hadn’t anticipated came along.
But - here’s the shocker folks - there is no perfect flawless software out there. Nor are there perfect Toyotas, perfect HDTV sets or perfect people.
That’s why I’m not all that shocked by this story saying that Apple Safari for Windows came out of the chute with some vulnerabilities. This seems pretty basic but software is (1) enormously complex and (2) it’s created by people. If we can’t expect people to be perfect then the same holds true for the software that people create.
But everytime someone finds a flaw in a new piece of software they seem completely shocked and dismayed. They ought to be happy instead. I remember from the time I flew airplanes - there was a great saying: It’s not the bugs that you know about that kill you, it’s the ones you discover for the first time in mid-air.
Me? I don’t care much about Safari for Windows. I’ll continue to use Firefox on my PC. Truth is that even the latest version of IE seems to work just fine for me. One browser I really need to revisit is Opera. It’s been a while since I used it but I have always been impressed by its speed, especially on lower end PCs. I need to try it again (I sure have some low end PCs around the house) to see if that still holds true.
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By Joel
June 23, 2007 12:20 PM | Link to this
A well-conceived and reasonable article, but “I don’t care much about Safari for Windows” ???
Wait a minute, you “have always been impressed by … (Opera’s) speed,” but you have no desire to try Safari, even though it’s touted as the fastest browser on the market?
Do I detect a prejudice here … maybe even a subconscious one? ;-)
Whenever a new product comes out for my computer that is in a class that I use a lot, my intellectual curiosity always forces me to try it at least and I guarantee you that EVEN IF MICROSOFT MADE IT, I’d try that software out and if it did the job as designed better and/or faster than what I’m currently using, even if Steve Jobs himself installed that program on my computer, I’d use it in a heartbeat … but then I guess that’s why I use a Mac in the first place … .
JoeL
By Bill
June 23, 2007 3:06 PM | Link to this
Hey Joel, I do use Safari on my Mac. It’s just that - because of various things I do on the Web as part of my job - I’m already using 3 different browsers on two different machines (PC and Mac). And it gets a little tedious switching between so many browsers as it is - it’s sort of like moving from a car with a 6-speed transmission to an automatic. You fumble aroudn a little. So, in the posting, I was saying that I didn’t feel any need to try Safari for Windows.