Apple’s Safari Public Beta Now Available
Apple on Tuesday released Safari 4 beta, a new version of its browser for Mac OS X and Windows. This update brings a bunch of new features, including a flashy new Top Sites view, a completely redesigned Windows UI, and support for some impressive emerging Web standards. Safari 4 is also said to run with the “Nitro” engine that runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3.
“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 Worldwide Product Marketing. “Safari 4 is the fastest and most efficient browser for Mac and Windows, with great integration of HTML 5 and CSS 3 web standards that enables the next generation of interactive web applications.”
Innovative new features in Safari 4 include:
– Top Sites, a display of frequently visited pages in a stunning wall of
previews so users can jump to their favorite sites with a single click;
– Full History Search, where users search through titles, web addresses
and the complete text of recently viewed pages to easily return to
sites they’ve seen before;
– Cover Flow, to make searching web history or bookmarks as fun and easy
as paging through album art in iTunes®;
– Tabs on Top, for better tabbed browsing with easy drag-and-drop tab
management tools and an intuitive button for opening new ones;
– Smart Address Field, that automatically completes web addresses by
displaying an easy-to-read list of suggestions from Top Sites,
bookmarks and browsing history;
– Smart Search Field, where users fine-tune searches with recommendations
from Google Suggest or a list of recent searches;
– Full Page Zoom, for a closer look at any website without degrading the
quality of the site’s layout and text;
– built-in web developer tools to debug, tweak and optimize a website for
peak performance and compatibility;
– a new Windows-native look in Safari for Windows, that uses standard
Windows font rendering and native title bar, borders and toolbars so
Safari fits the look and feel of other Windows XP and Windows Vista
applications.
The new public beta is available for both Mac and Windows as a free download from Apple’s website.
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