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Apple releases public beta of Safari 4 browser
AppleInsider —
... is said to run JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3. Other new features include Top Sites, for a visual preview of frequently visited pages; Full History Search, to search through titles, web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed pages; Cover Flow, to easily flip through web history or bookmarks; and Tabs on Top, to make tabbed browsing easier and more intuitive. "Apple created Safari to bring innovation, speed and open standards back into web browsers, and today it takes another big step forward," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of ...
New Safari – loads of new features
MacFormat RSS feed —
Apple has thrown up a new beta version of Safari, packed with what look like some very sweet features. The style sheet of the page at Apple is misbehaving a bit for me, with the layout most uncharacteristically screwy, but it's worth having a poke around and seeing what's new. Me, I'm looking forward to the full history search, though the under the hood stuff with CSS support and JavaScript looks very promising.
Find out more on Apple's site.
(Find out more, that is, if you can forgive Apple this line from the main Safari page: "It’s a browser. It’s a ...
Safari 4 Now in Public Beta
Ubergizmo —
... Safari is one of the less successful products from Apple, but the company is still moving forward with the release of Safari 4 Beta for Mac OS X and Windows. The improvements? Better Javascript support, faster page loading (compared to competitors IE and FF), HTML5, CSS3 and the Clover Flow history user interface that most people have seen used in iTunes to browser albums (complete list of new stuff). If you want to try it, head to the ...
Apple makes available Safari 4 beta
Tech Digest —
... They haven't stolen anything from IE, but is there anything worth stealing there? They've also added a cover-flow style interface for browsing through your bookmarks too. Pretty, but a little pointless? Interesting, Safari 4's default UI on Windows looks like Windows, unlike previous versions where it looked like OSX. That's a pretty significant change for a company that usually prides itself on its design. If you want to try it out, it's available from Apple's website right now. Safari 4 (via ...
Safari 4 Beta Released [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
... Explorer 7 and more than 3 times faster than Firefox 3 based on performance in leading industry benchmark tests: iBench and SunSpider.
In addition to superior JavaScript performance, Safari offers top-flight HTML performance — the best on any platform — loading pages 3 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and almost 3 times faster than Firefox 3.
Apple has a speed comparison with other Mac and Windows browsers over at their new features page.
Top Sites
Top Sites is a new feature that shows a dynamic grid ...
Apple Releases Safari 4 Public Beta for Mac and Windows Users
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News —
... Alongside the new version of Safari, Apple has visually detailed some of the bigger more substantial upgrades or enhancemenets to the browser on a “What’s new is Safari 4” web-page. ...
Safari 4 public beta available for testing
MacCentre701 —
... ss_safari4b_02.jpg Safari 4 also includes Accessible Rich Interactive Applications, full page zoom support, CSS effects and CSS Canvas support, HTML 5 offline support, offline database support, and smart search recommendations. It sports several features for developers, too such as a new Web Inspector, a page elements view, a JavaScript debugger, a page resources view, and more. For more information about the exciting new features in Safari 4, please visit this page (and ...
I'm Using Safari 4 Open Beta and I Haven't Died Yet
The Gadgets Weblog —
... the stupid address bar and gained a smart address bar. What this means is that you can type in a phrase or word, and Safari will finally work like every other web browser. Under the hood it seems stable and usable, but keep in mind it is a beta. I have done a lot to it including wringing all of Google's apps through it and it has yet to crash on both my MacBook and my HP Tablet. This is something I could not say for Safari 3 or Firefox 3. So far, so good; I like it. Head over to Apple to download the beta for yourself.
Apple Safari 4 Beta fo Mac OS X and Windows Released
D' Technology Weblog —
... 4 is the fastest and most efficient browser, with great integration of HTML 5 and CSS 3 web standards that enables the next generation of interactive web applications. The new Safari features:
Top Sites; Cover Flow offers a highly visual way of reviewing your site history and bookmarked sites; Tabs on Top; Nitro Engine; Blazing performance; View the performance charts; Windows Native Look and Feel; Developer Tools and more.
More info: Safari 4 ...
Linkpost | 2.25.2009
TechBlog —
I've been using Safari 4.0 for a full day now and really love it. The speed is amazing but it's the user interface improvements that clinch the deal for me. Here is a quick overview of the new features http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html Firefox still holds one advantage with its extension engine but there is no reason that you can't run two browsers and use Firefox when you need one of those extensions. It's the Top Sites gallery display of thumbnails of your favorite (or most frequently visited) web sites that I like best. To fully appreciate this feature you need to ...
February Blog Bits: From Safari 4 to iPhone Headsets
The Mac Observer —
... on February 25th, 2009 at 2:56 PM It's time for another edition of Blog Bits. This is where I gather several items, each one too brief to merit an entry of its own, and combine them into a single blog posting. Safari 4: Top Sites and tabs. Safari 4 (beta) is now available. I truly like the new Top Sites feature. I find it a great way to access and keep up with the latest updates to my most frequently visited sites. However, I really dislike that Tabs have been moved to the top of the window. For starters, whenever a Safari window is in the background and I want to make it the ...
New poll - Where should Safari's tab bar reside?
MacOSXHints.com —
The release of Safari 4 Beta came with one quite-controversial new feature: tabs on top, ala Google's Chrome. My colleague Dan Frakes discusses some of the pros and cons of this move, but I thought I'd ask the macosxhints readers, via this new poll, what they thought of the change in the tab bar's location. Note that I'm only offering two choices for the tab bar in this poll -- up top as in Safari 4, or back where it was in Safari 3. While it might be interesting to find out how many people prefer a vertical on-the-side tab bar (as in OmniWeb), I'm mostly ...
A First Look at Safari 4
SitePoint —
... Perhaps the most attractive feature is CoverFlow; an iTunes-like 3D carousel that shows recently viewed web pages. Those that have changed since your last visit are highlighted with a blue star. Although Mac users get CoverFlow as standard, it may be disabled in Windows if you have a low-end graphics card. Hopefully, Apple will fix that for the final release. ...
Safari 4!
UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping —
... whatsnew-tabs-20090217jpg They are just some of Safari 4’s new features, but there are 150 in total and each one improves the browser more. If your looking at your web browser now and thinking “this is boring” then you should definitely give this Public Beta a try because it’s great. And this is only a Beta, meaning that this isn’t even the full version of the browser yet….WOW! Download Safari 4 Beta now from the Apple website by clicking here . [images source: Apple ] If you like what you’re reading then learn more about joining our FREE newsletter ...
Microsoft Does Its Own Browser Benchmarking
Technologizer —
... Then there’s the fact that while most chatter about Safari’s speed involves JavaScript, Apple has also published results for the i-Bench HTML benchmark. They too make Safari look zippy and both IE 7 and IE 8 look sluggish. I don’t know enough about i-Bench (I believe Apple uses a custom version based on a ...
JavaScript 3-10x Faster On iPhone OS 3.0 [TheAppleBlog]
GigaOM Network —
... The new Nitro engine has gradually been improved by the WebKit team over the past year, and is included in the latest Safari 4 Beta. This new engine accounts for the dramatic performance improvement in Safari 4 which Apple states as enhancing both JavaScript and HTML rendering: ...
Cooliris 3D image browser plug-in
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... I just popped it into the Safari 4 beta and found it to be Not Awful. I'm not sure I'll be flipping over to it every time I do an image search, but it fits right into the Safari 4 "What's New" and "History" pages. ...
Safari 4.0 ships
MacCentre701 —
... with Full History Search. ss_safari4b_02.jpg Safari 4 also includes Accessible Rich Interactive Applications, full page zoom support, CSS effects and CSS Canvas support, HTML 5 offline support, offline database support, and smart search recommendations. It sports several features for developers, too such as a new Web Inspector, a page elements view, a JavaScript debugger, a page resources view, and more. For more information about the exciting new features in Safari 4, please visit this page (and ...
