Update : Apple has now updated the Safari 5 page on its Website .
Steve Jobs ’s Worldwide Developers Conference tonic was not without its percentage of glitches , and bad luck continued to plague Apple on Monday as what appear to be a untimely released press spillage dish out the feature on the late update to the company ’s Web web browser . According to the release , which has since been pulled , Safari 5adds a new Safari Reader feature that presents connection pages in a streamlined user interface , support for developer - created annexe , new HTML5 capabilities , and performance increases .
The raw Safari Reader feature seems akin to WWW - establish service like legibility , giving you the pick of viewing a Web page in a slimmed - down , scrollable view that eliminates many of the distract constituent . Safari 5 can detect both individual and multipage articles and allows you to toggle the Reader mode to expose the article , print it , or portion out it via e - mail .
Apple also bestow a few other exploiter - face feature film , such as the ability to open links in a Modern tab instead of a new window , a impertinent address playing field that can remember the substance of the page as well as the URL , and the option of using Microsoft ’s Bing in the search field of operations .
From a developer linear perspective , Apple has at long last opened up Safari to extensions , a feature article that had long been the domain of rival web browser like Chrome and Firefox . The introduction of the freeSafari Developer Programlets software engineer make extensions free-base on HTML5 , CSS3 , and JavaScript . Apple ’s even supply an Extension Builder to Safari to help germinate , package , and set up extension . To see to it security , extensions run in a sandboxed style entirely in Safari and ask a digital certificate sign by Apple . There ’s also an improved Web Inspector that bring a new Timeline musical mode to help developers figure out how Safari interacts with their Websites .
Safari 5 also sport a identification number of performance enhancement , include the new Nitro JavaScript railway locomotive , which Apple title better JavaScript functioning by 30 percent over Safari 4 and 3 pct over Google Chrome , as well as making it twice as fast as Firefox 3.6 . They ’ve also built in extra amphetamine features such as DNS prefetching and improved caching of antecedently viewed pages . In addition , the Windows version of Safari can now take reward of hardware speedup for artwork and synergistic features .
Apple ’s pass a plenty of sentence tattle about HTML5 recently , and Safari appear to put the company ’s money where its mouth is . admit in the update are a handful of new HTML5 - related feature , like the add-on of full covert video playback and closed caption , as well as HTML5 Geolocation and several other capableness that should allow entanglement developers to take even more advantage of the characteristic that HTML5 can extend .
Safari 5 will be a detached download for Mac and Windows ; the essential call for Mac OS 10 Leopard 10.5.8 or later , Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.2 or subsequently , Windows XP SP2 , Windows Vista , or Windows 7 . As of this writing , Safari 5 was not available via Apple ’s Software Update or on the companionship ’s Website .
update 4:52 PT with more contingent on the release .
[ Lex Friedman put up to this report . ]
