Apple Safari 5 unleashed and comparison with Safari 4
With the launch of iPhone 4, Apple has also launched a newer version of its popular Safari browser. The Safari 5 browser comes with enhanced speed, better performance, new technologies & flexibility to select your favorite search engine as default.
Here is a list of new features and comparison with Safari 4:
1. It offers a 30 % better performance over Safari 4 browser.
2. It allows you to select Google, Yahoo or MSN Bing as your default search engine.
3. It simplifies reading single and multipage web articles by presenting them in an enhanced scrollable manner. While reading an article, users can easily enlarge, print or email the article to their friends & family.
4. It runs Javascript 30 % faster than Safari 4 browser thanks to the new 'Nitro javascript engine'
5. It uses DNS prefetching & enhanced caching techniques to load webpages faster than Safari 4 browser.
6. It offers a number of new HTML 5 features including HTML5 Geolocation, HTML5 sectioning elements, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, HTML5 Ruby, HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource & WebSocket.
7. It comes with an Improved Web Inspector, which allows you to see how effeciently Safari is interacting with the websites that you are browsing.
8. It comes with extension support, which allows developers to customize and enhance the Safari 5 browser with extensions based on technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript.
To fnd out more, jump over to www.apple.com/safari.
