Safari 5

[giga Veteran]

http://www.prnewswir...5-95812499.html

SAN FRANCISCO, June 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Apple® today released Safari® 5, the latest version of the world's fastest and most innovative web browser, featuring the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4,* and the ability to choose Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari's search field. Available for both Mac® and Windows, Safari 5 includes improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies that allow web developers to create rich, dynamic websites. With Safari 5, developers can now create secure Safari Extensions to customize and enhance the browsing experience."Safari continues to lead the pack in performance, innovation and standards support," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "Safari now runs on over 200 million devices worldwide and its open source WebKit engine runs on over 500 million devices."

Safari Reader makes it easy to read single and multipage articles on the web by presenting them in a new, scrollable view without any additional content or clutter. When Safari 5 detects an article, users can click on the Reader icon in the Smart Address Field to display the entire article for clear, uninterrupted reading with options to enlarge, print or send via email.

Powered by the Nitro Javascript engine, Safari 5 on the Mac runs Javascript 30 percent faster than Safari 4, three percent faster than Chrome 5.0, and over twice as fast as Firefox 3.6.* Safari 5 loads new webpages faster using Domain Name System (DNS) prefetching, and improves the caching of previously viewed pages to return to them more quickly.

Safari 5 adds more than a dozen powerful HTML5 features that allow web developers to create media-rich experiences, including full screen playback and closed captions for HTML5 video. Other new HTML5 features in Safari 5 include HTML5 Geolocation, HTML5 sectioning elements, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, HTML5 Ruby, HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource and WebSocket.

The new, free Safari Developer Program allows developers to customize and enhance Safari 5 with extensions based on standard web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript. The Extension Builder, new in Safari 5, simplifies the development, installation and packaging of extensions. For enhanced security and stability, Safari Extensions are sandboxed, signed with a digital certificate from Apple and run solely in the browser.

10.6: Safari5.0SnowLeopard.dmg

10.5: Safari5.0Leopard.dmg

http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

[PNWDweller]

Will be interesting to see it go live when it does. Although Safari is not my default browser (Firefox is), I might switch if I like it enough with the enhancements. :)

[SaltLife]

Patiently waiting...

[WigglesTheFish]

Patiently waiting...

+1

I want to see how it compares to Chrome Dev (Mac) in terms of speed.

[torrentthief]

strange that it wasn't released a few hours ago during the press conference.

[Rappy Veteran]

I have Safari installed on my Windows and use it occasionally even if the ram usage jumps quickly at times...will be interested in this though!

[shockz]

Wonder if the tabs will be on top or the bottom. I personally loved the 4.0 betas, until they screwed the tabs up in the final.

[Dane]

Well the rumors were true then for this coming today...

What about the rumors of 10.6.4?! lol

[WigglesTheFish]

Wonder if the tabs will be on top or the bottom. I personally loved the 4.0 betas, until they screwed the tabs up in the final.

Me too, I loved those tabs. I felt it was the best "tabs on top" implementation on Mac thus far, I feel Chrome's has too much wasted space above the tabs making it look comically tall (so I use a mod from Macthemes, but I'd rather it just look nice without me having to hack it).

[.Neo]

Wonder if the tabs will be on top or the bottom. I personally loved the 4.0 betas, until they screwed the tabs up in the final.

The leaked documentation doesn't specify any big UI changes like that. Based on that Safari 5 won't look much different from Safari 4.

[Explosification]

Yes!

Been waiting for a piece of news on Safari 5.

I'll probably jump ship from Chrome when this is released.

[Rudy]

- The new, free Safari Developer Program allows developers to customize and enhance, Safari 5 with extensions based on standard web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. The Extension Builder, new in Safari 5, simplifies the development, installation and packaging of extensions. For enhanced security and stability, Safari Extensions are sandboxed, signed with a digital certificate from Apple and run solely in the browser.

Well i guess I might make the switch back to Safari :) Lets see how good the extension framework is

[.Neo]

Extremely glad to see this WWDC isn't about the iOS 4 only.

[BoneyardBrew Member]

I'll definitely give this a shot once the download is available.

[bjoswald]

I am extremely excited about this. Can't wait to try it.

[azure.sapphire]

This really doesn't make a lot of sense. The nightly builds don't really suggest a version 5 coming. Second, why wasn't it demoed at WWDC. Steve was on and on about HTML-5... this would of been a great way to reassure Mac users that they still have a platform to come home to. It could have made an awesome demo with the reader ability. I can find only one source to the legitimacy of this. I am by no means saying that this isn't going to happen. I am just really perplexed, then again WWDC is more than 1 day.

[Calum Veteran]

Wonder if the tabs will be on top or the bottom. I personally loved the 4.0 betas, until they screwed the tabs up in the final.

I feel the same way. I'd probably still be using Safari now if they'd left the tabs in the glass title bar on the Windows version. It was brilliant.

[Grinch]

When should we expect to see the download?

[Phantom Helix]

This really doesn't make a lot of sense. The nightly builds don't really suggest a version 5 coming. Second, why wasn't it demoed at WWDC. Steve was on and on about HTML-5... this would of been a great way to reassure Mac users that they still have a platform to come home to. It could have made an awesome demo with the reader ability. I can find only one source to the legitimacy of this. I am by no means saying that this isn't going to happen. I am just really perplexed, then again WWDC is more than 1 day.

it is 4 days long, however it's intention outside of publishing the keynote on apple.com is not for the public and consumers, so if it is not in the keynote then what does it really matter if they discuss it during the remaining days or not?

[Rudy]

When should we expect to see the download?

It should already be out :/

[Phantom Helix]

It should already be out :/

Fixed lol

[Alladaskill17]

I jumped the Safari 4 ship when I got Chrome, this should be interesting, currently using Chrome 5.

[Rudy]

Update: The press release was pulled so we're not sure what the status of Safari 5 is at the moment.

hmmmm I wonder what that means

[azure.sapphire]

The link is now dead. Macrumors has coverage of this on their top story.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/apple-releases-safari-5-95812499.html

[Knife Party]

wonder if Windows 7 intergration will be decent ?