{"id":552540,"date":"2007-06-11T22:22:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-11T22:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/552540-apple-joins-browser-wars-2.html"},"modified":"2007-06-11T22:22:24","modified_gmt":"2007-06-11T22:22:24","slug":"apple-joins-browser-wars-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/552540-apple-joins-browser-wars-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple joins browser wars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">This means that they will be joining the so called \u2018browsers wars\u2019, currently dominated by Microsoft\u2019s Internet Explorer and Mozilla\u2019s 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\u2019s fastest and easiest-to-use web browser. \u201cSafari 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,\u201d 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\">\u201cWe think Windows users are going to be really impressed when they see how fast and intuitive web browsing can be with Safari,\u201d said Steve Jobs, Apple\u2019s CEO. <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">\u201cHundreds of millions of Windows users already use iTunes, and we look forward to turning them on to Safari\u2019s superior browsing experience too.\u201d <\/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\">www.apple.com\/safari<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple announced today that they will be launching the Safari 3 Web Browser for both Windows PCs and Macs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552540"}],"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\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}