Apple Releases Safari 4 Web Browser
Apple has released its final version of Safari 4 , which the company is billing as the “world’s fastest and most innovative web browser.”
Available for Mac and Windows PCs and introduced as a beta in February of this year, Safari 4 features the Nitro engine which runs JavaScript up to 4.5 times faster than its predecessor.
Safari 4 is built on some of the most advanced browser technologies including the new Nitro JavaScript engine that executes JavaScript nearly eight times faster than IE 8 and more than four times faster than Firefox 3, according to Apple’s tests. The company also claims that Safari quickly loads HTML web pages more than three times faster than IE 8 and three times faster than Firefox 3.
Starting with the development of the open source WebKit browser engine, Apple has been an industry leader in defining and implementing innovative web standards. Safari 4 includes HTML 5 support for offline technologies and support for advanced CSS Effects, enabling an entirely new class of web applications that feature rich media, graphics and fonts.
Safari 4 is also the first officially released browser to pass the Web Standards Project’s Acid3 test, which examines how well a browser adheres to CSS, JavaScript, XML and SVG standards that are specifically designed for dynamic web applications.
Other new features in Safari 4 include:
- Top Sites, offering a visual preview of frequently visited and favorite 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.
- Smart Address Fields for automatically completing web addresses from an easy to read list of suggestions
- Search Fields, to 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.
Safari 4 is available for both Mac OS X and Windows as a free download.
Tags: apple, safari, web browser
June 9th, 2009 at 13:27
“Safari 4 is also the first browser to pass the Web Standards Project’s Acid3 test”
That statement is completely false. Opera did it back in 2008. http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog/2008/03/26/opera-and-the-acid3-test
Try doing a Google search before clicking
“publish” next time.
June 9th, 2009 at 13:44
The statement refers to an Acid 3 test for a general release web browser. It has been edited to read “officially released”.
The current stable release of Opera (9.64) only scores 85%.
June 17th, 2009 at 01:32
[...] See the original post: Business Internet Community » Blog Archive » Apple Releases Safari … [...]