{"id":241,"date":"2007-06-12T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-06-12T07:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T05:18:00","slug":"apple-joins-browser-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/241-apple-joins-browser-wars.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple joins browser wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ArtBod\">\n<p><font size=\"2\">This means that they will be joining the so called &lsquo;browsers wars&rsquo;, currently dominated by Microsoft&rsquo;s Internet Explorer and Mozilla&rsquo;s Firefox.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">According to W3Schools, who measures Web Statistics and Trends, Internet Explorer currently has a 58.8% market share, Firefox 33.7 %, Opera 1.6%, Safari 1.5% and Mozilla 1.3%.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Safari will have to be very impressive to make up ground against the well supported Internet Explorer and Firefox, but Apple believes that it is a great alternative to the current browsers.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">Apple claims that, according to the industry standard iBench tests, Safari is the world&rsquo;s fastest and easiest-to-use web browser. &ldquo;Safari is the fastest browser running on Windows, based on the industry standard iBench tests, rendering web pages up to twice as fast as IE 7 and up to 1.6 times faster than Firefox 2,&rdquo; Apple said.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">According to an Apple press statement Safari 3 features easy-to-manage bookmarks, effortless browsing with easy-to-organize tabs and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&ldquo;We think Windows users are going to be really impressed when they see how fast and intuitive web browsing can be with Safari,&rdquo; said Steve Jobs, Apple&rsquo;s CEO. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">&ldquo;Hundreds of millions of Windows users already use iTunes, and we look forward to turning them on to Safari&rsquo;s superior browsing experience too.&rdquo; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The free public beta of Safari 3 is available immediately as a download at <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/safari\"><font size=\"2\" color=\"#0000ff\">www.apple.com\/safari<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=77925\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple announced that they will be launching their Safari 3 Web Browser for both Windows PCs and Macs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}