Safari 4 beta released
Apple has released a beta version of its Safari 4 browser, which brings with it plenty of UI innovations and a few usability issues. There’s a great deal of cool stuff included: ‘tabs on top’ (borrowed from Chrome), ‘Top Sites’ (borrowed from Opera), and new location bar searching based on Firefox 3′s ‘Awesomebar’. There’s also a substantial JavaScript speedup—even if Apple’s claimed “7x faster than Firefox” is based on a slightly dodgy testsuite, it’s still a respectable 1.6x faster according to the well-respected Sunspider test.
Developers aren’t neglected, either. HTML5 support now includes offline storage and the <video> and <audio> tags. Combined with improved CSS3 support, CSS Transformations and Animations, better SVG and SMIL, basic WAI-ARIA support, and a revamped Web Inspector, it looks like Safari 4 is gong to be an excellent release and a solid advance for web standards.
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