Last Monday Steve Jobs unveiled the new Safari 3 Beta for both PC and Mac at his keynote speech at WWDC.
Being a Mac and a Windows user myself I found the Windows release a bit odd in how Safari rendered the fonts, I would have thought that they would use Systems fonts when rendering comes to play and thus was wondering were the odd came from, but I think I was wrong...
Joel Spolsky, from Joel on Software, put up this great post explaining how font rendering works and the approach each Microsoft and Apple have when it comes to drawing them, after reading it you'll come to know why most of we Windows users will look at Safari font rendering in a weird way the first time the experience it... and as well why long time Mac users will be just fine with it... check it out here.
BTW. Just as a fact check, I was just checking out Apple's news page and it seems that they hit the 1 million download within their first 48 hours of being available for download.
But it is funny that they had their fist malware exploit and patch within that same 48 hour timeframe. I guess that would mean we should expect the 2 million mark within the 96 hours as they roll out the new compilation to their user base... let's wait and see!
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