June 8, 2010 by James Oliver
Yet more news from Apple as they dominate June with announcements, while many thought that the iPhone 4 was the only announcement worth listening to from Apple at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 in San Francisco, they would be mistaken.
Apple have released the next version of its Safari web browser (version 5.0) on the sly for Mac and Windows. The most notable changes that Safari 5.0 brings is the HTML5 and the extensions support. Apart from that, much like the iPhone the browser will now also offer the option to make Microsoft’s Bing as the default search engine.
Apple are claiming that Safari 5.0 is faster than its rival browsers Google’s Chrome and Mozilla’s Firefox. Safari 5.0 for Mac is powered with a Nitro JavaScript engine that makes JavaScript run 30 percent faster than on the previous Safari 4 browser.
Apple are boasting that Safari 5.0 is twice as fast as Firefox and three percent faster than Google’s latest browser Chrome 5. Apple uses the Domain Name System pre-fetching of previously viewed web pages to make them load faster.
The new Safari 5 supports dozens of new web technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, all of which allow developers to create rich-media experiences. Safari 5 well also bring full screen play back and closed captions for HTML5 Video, HTML5 Geo-location, HTML5 forms validation, and several other features.
Apple has also introduced new free Safari Developer Program under which developers can build extensions using standard web technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript for enhancing the Safari 5 web browser. New Extension builder in Safari 5 works like a sandbox for the extensions that get digitally signed Apple certificate and runs only from web browser.
Finally, Safari has joined Chrome, Firefox and Opera’s league with Extensions. Safari is available for download to run on Windows or Mac platform on the Apple site as of this week.
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