Rumor: Safari for Windows

With less than an hour to go until Steve's WWDC keynote, people are throwing rumors around faster than Daisuke Matsuzaka. Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet noticed an interesting tidbit on the Mozilla Foundation's wiki page categorized "Observations and Assumptions:"

"Apple may have Safari on Windows with likely ties to iTunes & .Mac"

Now, before we get all excited, let's remember that these are the "observations and assumptions" of the folks at the Mozilla Foundation. In the words of Felix Unger, "When you assume, you make an ass out of 'u' and 'me.'"

[Via Daring Fireball]

Update: Well, how do you like that? It's true. Get it here.

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Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=197

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Macskeeball

I've come up with a list of nine business reasons for Apple doing this (ie. what they have to gain). Anyone interested can find the list at http://macskeeball.wordpress.com/2007/06/13/safari-on-windows-9-business-reasons-for-apples-porting-it

June 13 2007 at 3:03 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

brian

Tony C--wrong. iTunes does not use WebKit on Mac or Windows.
http://www.google.com/search?q=itunes+webkit

All others: this is, basically, the iPhone-web-app-SDK for Windows. If it weren't for the iPhone, I doubt they'd bother.

June 11 2007 at 4:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tony C

This was kind of a foregone conclusion for quite a while now... Especially since iTunes for Windows has used WebKit/Safari ever since the iTunes Store has been in operation, correct?

June 11 2007 at 3:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Macskeeball

Here's how they'll make money on this. Think about it. Bookmark syncing between Macs running Safari and PCs... *if you subscribe to .Mac!*

June 11 2007 at 2:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

pangelav

Where's a link? We want to download this ASAP!

June 11 2007 at 2:27 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sham The Sam

very strange... this is going to take some creative thinking- lots of possibilities. but the ramifications will take some sorting...

June 11 2007 at 2:13 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Sejuru

It's true, per MacRumorsLive WWDC coverage!

June 11 2007 at 2:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben Kreeger

Looks like this was just confirmed! Safari for Windows!

June 11 2007 at 2:10 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gene

Two interesting tidbits about this: first, the article from Mary Jo Foley is a whopping six months old, so this is hardly a new scoop on the eve of WWDC. Second, a recent occurrence seems to have added some weight to this rumor: the iPhone interface change from a "Web" button to "Safari." Why would Apple take this step to "brand" Safari unless they were planning on building the Safari brand? I mean, on its own, the word Safari means something completely different to non-Mac users (and potential iPhone converts)...

June 11 2007 at 1:19 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Actually there are already efforts porting Webkit to Windows: Swift
http://try.swift.ws/

June 11 2007 at 1:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply