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Safari 5 with Safari Reader may be released at WWDC
After speedy new updates to Opera and Google Chrome, Safari's looking pretty slow these days. Fortunately for Apple, Safari 5 might be ready to go at Apple's developer conference, WWDC, later this week. Although the focus of WWDC looks like it will mostly be mobile -- that impending new iPhone and the just-released iPad are hot hot hot -- the desktop version of Apple's browser could get some love, too.According to French Mac blog MacGeneration, Safari 5 will offer a big 25% bump in JavaScript rendering performance, a new more-readable article viewer called Safari Reader, and improved HTML5 support. As we just reported, Apple is touting its HTML5 capabilities with new (sort of) Safari-only demos, so this would be a great strategic moment to launch a major new browser upgrade.
OS X 10.6.4 is also potentially on the cards for WWDC. MacGeneration says it will mostly just offer bug fixes, as well as Apple's now-familiar line about enhancing "the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac."
[via 9to5Mac]
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Subscribe to commentsMatthew RogersJun 5th 2010 9:19PM
I'm anxious to see if their supposed tab-support upgrade will actually make the browser usable without pulling my hair out. Should be interesting :)
ArnieJun 5th 2010 9:21PM
Frankly speaking Safari on Windows sucks as does iTunes. Its a POS imo. Chrome for getting my WebKit fix and FireFox for extensibility.
ThomasJun 5th 2010 9:30PM
iTunes on Windows is actually very powerful and usable, you just got to know how to use it properly, to truly enjoy the software.
JordanJun 5th 2010 11:03PM
No, iTunes on Windows is one giant POS. 3-some years after Aero was released and iTunes doesn't yet even support it.
ThomasJun 6th 2010 3:29PM
In my case, maybe not yours.....iTunes has done wonders for me on my Windows machines, and works flawless (without any problems). I guess some people have different views on the matter.....After all, we as people have our own likes and dislikes.
JordanJun 6th 2010 4:23PM
That is very true, however, given the countless Windows machines I've used iTunes on that have all sucked, and given that everybody else I know running Windows agrees, iTunes blows ass on Windows. The consensus is that it's not Windows' fault either.
Makes me wonder what your definition of flawless is.
EvenioJun 5th 2010 11:56PM
It's a well-known truth by now that Apple, much like Microsoft, only knows how to write software for their own platform. Any attempts to venture outside their own playing field result in abominations. Safari, QuickTime and (to a lesser degree) iTunes are actually pretty awesome on OS X, but you'd never know it from using their Windows counterparts.
Dave JohnsonJun 6th 2010 1:00AM
The part I'm loving is the competition. Apple simply hasn't had any with it's niche products and so when it introduces a cross-platform software like Safari it gets face to face with the "other world." And all of a sudden, it's grow or go ... open competition forces it to be better or lose relevance. Check out Chrome ... it's kicking Safari's ass. Hopefully Apple will respond more quickly than MS did to the wide open competition. Finally, if they think HTML5 is going to put them ahead ... good luck with that. HTML5 is sloooowly being implemented, and the the other browsers will be there commensurate to its development and implementation. There's no way (with the exception of the converted) that Safari is going to win converts at this stage simply because of their HTML5 support.
pristy.siteJun 6th 2010 5:05AM
Try this here are working that demos.
http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/
@davey_ladJun 6th 2010 5:18AM
All this talk of HTML5 is meaningless to most web devs... the ones that write web apps for business at least. Until the business community decide to drop IE6 then nice new standards mean fuck all!
I envisage years of catering for IE6 & 7 before I could even consider using any of the features of a new standard. I predict HTML 6 or 7 with be around by then.