Lazycoder

It’s a Safari world after all

Safari running on Windows was announced during the WWDC 2007 keynote and is available for download right now. I’m writing this post using it under Windows XP/SP 2.

Let’s count up where Safari/WebKit is in use as of today.

Adobe AIR uses WebKit as their HTML/Javascript engine.

Safari runs under both OS X 10.4.9 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard and Windows XP/Vista.

Safari runs on the iPhone.

My gut tells me that Safari on Windows combined with AIR using WebKit AND third-party development on the iPhone being done against Safari is going to be much, much more significant than we realize right now.

Depending on the adoption of the iPhone and AIR, the browser war could turn into IE vs. Safari instead of IE vs. FireFox like everyone expected.