How soon the bloom fades from the fruit. Apple’s controversial distribution method for delivering Safari 3.1 to Windows users is inciting flames of discontent among customers and critics alike, who now accuse the company of unfair practices. The problem stems from Apple’s iTunes Software Update client for Windows, which some claim dupes users into downloading the latest version of Safari by leaving the install option checked by default, whether the browser was previously installed or not, which users then mistake to be a necessary update rather than an option.
Not surprisingly, rivals are jumping on the Safari-gate bandwagon like hungry wolves feeding on a wounded fawn, with angry words flung like cannon balls. Mozilla Chief John Lilly has gone on the offensive, alleging that Apple’s software delivery method “borders on malware distribution practices. What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong.”
Harsh words. Next will come the accusation that Apple illegally ties its browser with the operating system. Sorry, Microsoft beat them to it.
InfoWorld: Apple’s Safari browser likened to malware
Written by Kent Pribbernow on March 25th, 2008 with no comments.
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Let the good times roll! SV
UpToDate
Written by Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM on January 2nd, 2008 with no comments.
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Well we are one step closer to having Epocrates on the beloved iPhone.
This iPhone Epocrates website link is Safari friendly and will at least let you look up the medications monographs and pill photos.
Its a good start. SV
iPhone Epocrates link
Written by Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM on November 27th, 2007 with no comments.
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Apple’s (AAPL) Safari made the biggest gains in September among mainstream Web browsers, according to new research released today by Net Applications Inc.
Although Microsoft’s (MSFT) Internet Explorer still dominates the category, Safari’s market share rose nearly 7.7% for the month and now represents better than 5% of the traffic on the Internet. Firefox’s share rose slightly (2.15%) and now carries nearly 15% of the traffic. Explorer continued its slow fall, drifting down more than 1% for the month.
Net Applications samples browser data from visitors to a network of
some 40,000 websites around the world, a method that tends to
skew results toward computers that are heavily used and away from those
that are gathering dust.
The most impressive growth in the latest numbers was the nearly 17% jump in “other,” a category that includes such browsers as Opera, Netscape, Opera Mini, Mozilla, Danger Web Browser, Konqueror and PlayStation Portable Internet Browser.
The following table, derived from Net Applications’ research, summarizes their results. For more detail, you can go to their website here. For a report on their operating system numbers, see Mac Installed Base Hits 6.6% in September.
Written by Philip Elmer-DeWitt on October 1st, 2007 with no comments.
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Necessity is the mother of invention.
Here is the explanation by Steve Kangas.
Many can be used with Safari. SVHow do they work?
Each bookmarklet is a tiny program (a JavaScript application) contained in a bookmark (the URL is a "javascript:" URL) which can be saved and used the same way you use normal bookmarks. The idea was suggested in the Netscape JavaScript Guide.
JavaScript has been used by page authors on millions of webpages; Bookmarklets allow anybody to use JavaScript - on whatever page you choose (not just your own page).
Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the surf and search capabilities of Netscape and Explorer web browsers.
Bookmarklets are free.
Bookmarklets allow you to:
* Modify the way you see someone else's webpage.
* Extract data from a webpage.
* Search more quickly, and in ways not possible with a search engine.
* Navigate in new ways.
...and more. Over 150 bookmarklets are available.
Bookmarklets work on all platforms (Windows, Macintosh, Unix,...)
You do not have to download or install software to use Bookmarklets.
BookmarkletsSamrod
Written by Salvatore Volpe MD FAAP FACP CHCQM on September 9th, 2007 with no comments.
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