OK, I’m not one for conspiracy theories (well there is the whole JFK thing), but compare the new Apple Safari 4 beta against Google Chrome. Here Chrome in all it’s glory:
And here’s the new Safari 4 beta:
Notice the similar window style and button layout? Apple knows Google is onto a good thing. Still not convinced? - take a look at the Web Inspector for each browser. First up – Chrome:
And now Safari’s Web Inspector:
Almost pixel perfect. Hmm.. Well they do use the same render engine so perhaps I won’t need my tin foil hat this time, but can Apple really claim it’s the ‘world’s fastest web browser’?
Safari 4 looks pretty nice and because it looks like and acts like a Windows application and renders fonts corerctly, I think I’m hooked. Go check it out here – Safari 4. Here’s hoping the next versions of QuickTime and iTunes get a similar make over.
Update: Timothy Hatcher explains it all, great stuff.
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The Web Inspector is part of WebKit so it isn’t a surprise that Chrome and Safari have similar versions of it.
Have a look at my post that talks about the redesign: http://webkit.org/blog/197/web-inspector-redesign/
Thanks Timothy. The Web Inspector is pretty cool.
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