{"id":33287,"date":"2012-12-21T14:35:35","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T13:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifun.de\/?p=33287"},"modified":"2012-12-21T14:35:54","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T13:35:54","slug":"safari-statt-freedom-auf-den-letzten-metern-umgetauft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifun.de\/safari-statt-freedom-auf-den-letzten-metern-umgetauft-33287\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8222;Safari&#8220; statt &#8222;Freedom&#8220;: Auf den letzten Metern umgetauft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.ifun.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/safari.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"safari\" width=\"151\" height=\"183\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33288\" \/>Um Haaresbreite ist Apples Safari-Browser an einer Namensgebung vorbeigeschlittert, die aus dem Firefox-Konkurrenten mit dem Kompass im Anwendungs-Icon einen &#8222;Freedom&#8220;-Browser gemacht h\u00e4tte. Dies <a href=\"http:\/\/donmelton.com\/2012\/12\/19\/when-i-first-heard-the-name-safari\/\">berichtet Don Melton<\/a>, ein ehemaliger Apple-Programmierer, der die Safari- und Webkit-Entwicklung in den fr\u00fchen Tagen leitete. <\/p>\n<p>Meltons Anekdote kommt <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac\">aus einer Zeit<\/a>, in der Apple noch an einen exklusiven 5-Jahres Deal mit Microsoft gebunden war und den Internet Explorer (von 1998 bis 2003) als Standard-Browser auf allen neu verkauften Rechnern auslieferte und beschreibt die Suche Steve Jobs nach dem richtigen Namen. <\/p>\n<p>Jobs, so Melton, habe die m\u00f6glichen Kandidaten laut ausgesprochen und so nicht nur deren Klang, sondern auch die Reaktionen des Entwickler-Teams getestet. Neben &#8222;iBrowse&#8220;, habe sich vor allem &#8222;Freedom&#8220; unter den potentiellen Kandidaten wiedergefunden:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>During the Summer of \u201802, Steve Jobs and the Apple management team realized that we were going to pull this off \u2014 we could actually ship a Web browser by the end of the year.  [&#8230;] As I remember, Steve just started saying some names out loud \u2014 I suppose trying them out to see how they felt in his mouth and to his ears. Which is not as odd as it seemed then \u2014 it\u2019s a good technique now that I think about it.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t recall all the names, but one that stands out is \u201cFreedom.\u201d Steve spent some time trying that one out on all of us. He may have liked it because it invoked positive imagery of people being set free. [&#8230;] Of course, all I could think about was, \u201cPlease don\u2019t let us name the browser after a feminine hygiene product!\u201d But cooler heads and filthier minds prevailed. Apparently, I wasn\u2019t the only one in the room with that concern. So, after some discussion about its actual merits, \u201cFreedom\u201d moved off the candidate list.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifun.de\/safari-statt-freedom-auf-den-letzten-metern-umgetauft-33287\/\"><img width=\"124\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/images.ifun.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/safari.png\" class=\"alignright tfe wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a><p>Um Haaresbreite ist Apples Safari-Browser an einer Namensgebung vorbeigeschlittert, die aus dem Firefox-Konkurrenten mit dem Kompass im Anwendungs-Icon einen &#8222;Freedom&#8220;-Browser gemacht h\u00e4tte. Dies berichtet Don Melton, ein ehemaliger Apple-Programmierer, der die Safari- und Webkit-Entwicklung in den fr\u00fchen Tagen leitete. Meltons Anekdote kommt aus einer Zeit, in der Apple noch an einen exklusiven 5-Jahres Deal mit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4736,211,1616,259],"class_list":["post-33287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple","tag-apple","tag-browser","tag-internet-explorer","tag-safari"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"rest_api_enabler":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifun.de\/apiv2\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifun.de\/apiv2\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifun.de\/apiv2\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifun.de\/apiv2\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifun.de\/apiv2\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifun.de\/apiv2\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33290,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifun.de\/apiv2\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33287\/revisions\/33290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifun.de\/apiv2\/wp\/v2\/media\/33288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifun.de\/apiv2\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifun.de\/apiv2\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifun.de\/apiv2\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}