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Surfing Safari
Apple’s release of its web browser for the Windows platform means a lot of things, as many have already speculated. Obviously, financial gain is among them; search engine advertising is a pretty well entrenched (and lucrative) revenue model, and a browser that includes a search engine toolbar stands to receive a little kick-back.
One reason I’m excited about the release is sort of a corollary to the first of (Daring Fireball) John Gruber’s “secondary reasons why Apple developed and released Safari for Windows“:
More Safari users means better support for Safari from web developers. The more popular Safari for Windows gets, the less likely it is that a big new web app is going to be released without first-class support for Safari on day one.
The greater the market share of non-Internet Explorer browsers, the more web designers and developers will have to learn to design in accordance with standards, not just in accordance with what works on IE Win. Here’s to the eventual demise of “this site best viewed at 800 by 600” and “best viewed with Internet Explorer.” And to the end of taxpayer-supported websites that deliver multimedia presentations exclusively in proprietary formats.
