Apple also released Safari 5, the latest version of the Mac/Win web browser, featuring the new Safari Reader (for reading articles on the web), a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4, with the ability to choose Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari’s search field.
Safari 5 is available for both Mac and Windows, and includes improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies that allow web developers to create rich, dynamic websites. Regarding the technical improvements, Apple press release noted:
Powered by the Nitro JavaScript engine, Safari 5 on the Mac runs JavaScript 30 percent faster than Safari 4, three percent faster than Chrome 5.0, and over twice as fast as Firefox 3.6.* Safari 5 loads new webpages faster using Domain Name System (DNS) prefetching, and improves the caching of previously viewed pages to return to them more quickly.
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.
Minimum Requirements:
- Safari 5 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 or Mac OS X Snow Leopard(R) 10.6.2 or later.
- Safari 5 for Windows requires Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7, a minimum 256MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor.
- Full system requirements and more information on Safari 5 can be found at www.apple.com/safari.
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