Safari for Korean Windows

by Robert Koehler on July 5, 2007

Korean users, rejoice! Safari now plays nicely with the Korean version of Windows.

{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }

1 French Quarter July 5, 2007 at 5:23 pm: We can read Korean on Safari for Windows 3.02, but it doesn’t support text input of some languages including Chinese and Korean.
2 French Quarter July 5, 2007 at 5:25 pm: http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

The above link says a bunch of features including international text input are coming.
3 Ut videam July 5, 2007 at 8:58 pm: Is there an in here?
4 Robert Koehler July 5, 2007 at 9:06 pm: Sorry, didn’t see you’re comment back there.

Now, if only I could find a Safari blogging tool like Performancing for Firefox…
5 R. Elgin July 5, 2007 at 9:38 pm: Yeah, I use performancing as well and it is great.
6 SomeguyinKorea July 6, 2007 at 8:14 am: So, will the reporters who were quick to criticize the previous version’s inability to encode Korean text, not understanding that it was just a beta version, print some sort of correction?
7 Brendon Carr July 7, 2007 at 5:24 pm: No way baby! It’s imperative that Koreans be led to understand that Apple products are complete shit! Especially — especially — since they’re not.
8 French Quarter July 7, 2007 at 6:24 pm: I agree that the reporters should have said Safari 3 for Windows is a beta version. However, Safari 3.0 and 3.01 for Windows were UNUSABLE. I regularly download beta versions of the software that I’m interested in. Safari 3.0 was, as some people on the IT blogs called, like a “pre-alpha” version. Security experts found security holes within 2 hours after the release and found 18 holes within 24 hours. Safari 3.0 and 3.01 did not run or did not show its menu on some computers (of course, with the English version Windows XP and Vista) for unknown reasons. When I reinstalled 3.0 version for a problem on Windows XP, its menu disappeared, and I had to delete “invisible” Safari-related folders and reinstalle Safari 3.0 to get it to show the menu. Anyone could download 3.0 and 3.01, but not all of them could deal with those problems. The public who downloaded 3.0 had been exposed to security risk until 3.02 was released. Not all of the known security holes have been plugged yet.

Safari 3.0 for Mac was much more stable than the Windows version. Current Safari 3.02 for Windows usable as a beta. On my Mac, I use Safari 3.02 for Mac and Camino, which is another web browser.

The below is a part of the PC World review on the Safari 3.0 for Windows:
“Although Safari 3.0 is beta code, and expected to include bugs, Ferris said that Apple’s team should have tested it more carefully before making it available to such a large group of testers. “In order to have a useful beta test of a Web browser people need to use it in the real world, which is ultimately exposing them to malware,” he said.”
http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,132845-c,browserbugs/article.html