Apple has released Safari 5, the latest version of its Web browser, with a touted 30 percent performance increase, Bing search (in addition to Yahoo and Google) and extensions, as well as support for new HTML5 technologies.
The update is available for both Mac and Windows.
Another new feature is called Safari Reader, which makes it easy to read single and multi-page 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.
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.
Whilst all this functionality is great and wonderful to get to grips with, in real world use it isn’t that practical yet for a web designer.
Safari and it’s webkit rendering engine is steaming ahead of the competing browsers - Internet Explorer (of course) is still languishing somewhere in the equivalent of the MIddle Ages in web browser terms - so implementing the new technologies on a day to day basis is still a fair way off.
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