<< June 12, 2007 >>
kudos

so, yes, i was a little surprised by safari for windows, but not much. when i was working on hula, at least a year ago, they were already working on webkit for windows. that they could do this in an open project for a year, without overwhelming speculation deserves some credit. but as to why are they really releasing safari for windows? the new york times makes it pretty obvious:

Under the agreement, the Google search page is the default home page when a user first installs Firefox, and is the default in the search bar. In the last two years, the deal has brought in more than $100 million. (Google has a similar placement with Apple's Safari.)

well, that and the fact that 5% market share doesn't get you much webmaster street cred these days.

i hope this extra competition ends up improving browsers for everyone. way back when, the first thing i was hoping for when mozilla was originally open sourced was tabbed browsing (not that i did anything about it, though). firefox's recentish success has now lifted everyone's boat; even the web browser on my heart rate monitor now supports tabs. and i also hope this makes my friends over at the company even more excited about what they're doing.

ok i need to go get more yogurts and wash some socks, because these are the things that successful twenty-eight year-olds do on a beautiful spring evening.