Something that Steve Jobs left out at the WWDC 2010, is the release of Safari 5, Apple’s notorious browser. With Safari 5, Apple wishes to have a battlefield in the browser market, as HTML5 gets picked up by more developers.
Apple claimed a 30% boost in performance with the new zoo. Along with it, is the new Safari Reader, which gives users the browsing experience like reading PDF. The Reader feature auto-detects articles within webpages and pulls them out for an unencumbered text-only view. A very cool and niche feature indeed, but not that smart yet atm, as I notice not many sites are working with Reader. Perhaps some tweaking needs to be done, both on developers’ side and the browsers’ team. Apple is also adding in Extensions (think Firefox’s Add-Ons) to the browser, allowing devs to use HTML5, CSS and JavaScript to put some make-up for their site for cooler browsing experience.
Let’s have a run-down of the new features.
* Safari Reader – new way to view articles on the web in a single, clutter-free page
* Improved performance – executes Javascript up to 25% faster than Safari 4, better page caching, and DNS prefetching which speeds up browsing
* Bing search option – Bing search by Microsoft to be integrated into Safari’s search field, though Google is still the default
* Improved HTML5 support – dozens of new HTML5 features like Geolocation, full screen for HTML5 videos, closed caption for HTML5 videos, new sectioning elements (article, aside, footer, header, hgroup, nav and section), HTML5 Ajax History, EventSource, WebSocket, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, and HTML5 Ruby
* Safari Developer Tools – new Timeline Panel in the Webi Inspector shows how Safari interacts with a website and identifies areas for optimization. New keyboard shortcuts make it faster to switch between panels.
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