Apple on Tuesday announced the release of a public beta Safari 4, promising a much faster browser with improved navigation and searching.
Apple launches According to Apple the latest edition of Apple’s browser for both Mac OS X and Windows will run JavaScript commands 4.2 times faster than Safari 3, company also claims better JavaScript and HTML page loading than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 or Mozilla’s FireFox 3. Apple also added the Cover Flow interface to scroll backwards through browsing history as if they were flipping through album covers, and what appears to be Apple’s own implementation of FireFox’s Smart Location “awesome bar” called Smart Address Field.
Also adding to this Apple senior director for system software Brian Croll said about his new JavaScript engine called Nitro that results in the improved performance.
He said Safari 4′s support for Web standards like HTML 5, which allows Web applications to work while offline, and CSS 3 for adding graphical effects. Safari 4 has passed the Acid3 test developed by the Web Standards Project, while FireFox 3 and Internet Explorer 7 have yet to do so reported by him.
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