I'm typing this in Apple's Safari web browser, which has recently become available for Windows. Apple of course claim that it's the fastest and the best browser. Initial impressions were favourable but now things are not looking quite so good:

• Safari wants me to use the American spelling for 'favorable' and I can't find out how to tell it I want to use a British English spellchecker. Cultural imperialism - grrr!
• I wanted this and the previous paragraphs to have bullet points and I wanted to put in a link to the Safari download page, but most of the buttons in Joomla's web based text editor seem to be non-functional (i.e. the javascript isn't working correctly even though it isn't disabled) so I suppose I'll have to re-edit this in Firefox before publishing it.

Well I suppose I'll keep Safari installed so I can check how Mac users see websites I work on, but then again, I see a lot of Mac user's running Firefox, now I know some of the reasons why.

One of the distinctive features of ICCM this year was the increased number of people using Macs. I can see some of the attractions - Mac software looks nice and apparently build quality of the hardware is quite high, but prices of hardware and software are still high too. Yes I could run Windows in a virtual machine, but I don't see myself rushing out to buy an MacBook quite yet.

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