Matt Goyer’s Real Estate Blog

Wow, Apple announced today at WWDC 2007 that Safari 3 is coming to Windows. This is an interesting move in so much that it will force developers to take the Safari browser that much more seriously given its potential increased reach.

Previously it was too easy for developers large and small to say that Safari is only 5% of customers let’s just ignore those 5% instead of supporting them. For us, we didn’t want to ignore them because 5% of your user base at a startup is very important but we had to because of some partner choices we made.The good news is that both of our partners who do not support Safari already had plans to support Safari before this announcement.

The other thing I really like about this announcement is that Apple is really boastful about their JavaScript performance. From Engadget’s Steve Jobs live from WWDC 2007:

I would love to see the other browser’s step up and start to compete not just on features but on performance. There is only so much we can do as app developers to make our apps speedy.

If you want to try out Safari 3 with Redfin you will need to make us think it is Firefox. Go to the debug menu and change your user agent to be Firefox 2.0.0.2. To enable the debug menu on Windows you need to (thanks to our Mac dev Sasha for digging into Windows for this tip :) ):

1. Open up %APPDATA%\Apple Computer\Safar\Preferences.plist in Notepad.
2. Add the following entry at the bottom of the file, right before the </dict> line:
   <key>IncludeDebugMenu</key>
   <integer>1</integer>

3. Restart Safari.

Please note that while it sort of works there are some quirks.

Update: Redfin now supports Safari 3. Yay!

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