According to a French blog MacGeneration, the next Safari 5 may be announced this Monday at the Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 (WWDC), and could be loaded with features.
Lets eye the main features:
- Improved Performance: Safari 5 executes JavaScript upto 25% faster than Safari. Better page caching and DNS prefetching speed up browsing.
- Safari Reader: Click on the new Reader icon to view articles on the web in a single, clutter-free page.
- Bing search Option: New Bing search option provided for safari’s search field, in addition to Google and Yahoo.
- Safari Developer Tools: A new timeline panel in the web inspector shows safari interacts with a website and identifies areas for optimisation. New keyboard shortcuts make it faster to switch between panels.
- Improved HTML5 support: Safari supports over a dozen new HTML5 features, including Geolocation, full screen for HTML5 video, closed captions for HTML5 video, new sectioning elements, HTML5 AJAX history, EventSource, WebSocket, HTML5 forms validation and HTML5 Ruby.
These rumored specs make Safari 5 sound like a major improvement over previous versions, but it’s still missing two big things: a good API for building extensions (though blogger John Gruber hinted at an extension API for Safari last month) and the option to automatically reopen pages that you left open when you closed the browser. Until then, I’m sticking with Google Chrome. There is a general consensus that Safari 5 will be the most important update from Apple in the browser market to-date when it comes to downloading it on the Windows platform.
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