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<p>Apple has announced the public beta of Safari 4,<br />
the latest version of the web browser for Mac and<br />
Windows computers. The Nitro engine in Safari 4<br />
runs JavaScript 4.2 times faster than Safari 3,<br />
the company says.</p>
<p>New features include: Top Sites, for a visual<br />
preview of frequently visited pages; Full History<br />
Search, to search through titles, web addresses<br />
and the complete text of recently viewed pages;<br />
Cover Flow, to flip through web history or<br />
bookmarks; and Tabs on Top, to make tabbed<br />
browsing easier and more intuitive.</p>
<p>"Apple created Safari to bring innovation, speed<br />
and open standards back into web browsers, and<br />
today it takes another big step forward," says<br />
Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of<br />
Worldwide Product Marketing. "Safari 4 is the<br />
fastest and most efficient browser for Mac and<br />
Windows, with great integration of HTML 5 and CSS<br />
3 web standards that enables the next generation<br />
of interactive web applications."</p>
<p>Safari 4 is built on the world's most advanced<br />
browser technologies including the new Nitro<br />
JavaScript engine that executes JavaScript up to<br />
30 times faster than IE 7 and more than three<br />
times faster than Firefox 3, he adds. Safari<br />
quickly loads HTML web pages three times faster<br />
than IE 7 and almost three times faster than<br />
Firefox 3, according to Schiller.</p>
<p>Safari 4 includes HTML 5 support for offline<br />
technologies so web-based applications can store<br />
information locally without an Internet<br />
connection. Apple says it's the first browser to<br />
support advanced CSS Effects that enable web<br />
graphics using reflections, gradients and<br />
precision masks. Safari 4 is the first browser to<br />
pass the Web Standards Project's Acid3 test,<br />
which examines how well a browser adheres to CSS,<br />
JavaScript, XML and SVG web standards that are<br />
specifically designed for dynamic web<br />
applications.</p>
<p>Safari for Mac, Windows, iPhone and iPod touch<br />
are all built on Apple's WebKit browser engine.<br />
Apple developed WebKit as an open source project<br />
to create the world's best browser engine and to<br />
advance the adoption of modern web standards,<br />
says Schiller. Most recently, WebKit led the<br />
introduction of HTML 5 and CSS 3 web standards<br />
and is known for its fast, modern code-base, he=<br />
adds. The industry's newest browsers are based on<br />
WebKit including Google Chrome, the Google<br />
Android browser, the Nokia Series 60 browser and<br />
Palm webOS.</p>
<p>Here's a summary of the new features in Safari 4:<br />
° Top Sites, a display of frequently visited<br />
pages in a wall of previews so users can jump to<br />
their favorite sites with a single click;</p>
<p>° Full History Search, where users search through<br />
titles, web addresses and the complete text of<br />
recently viewed pages to return to sites they've<br />
seen before;</p>
<p>° Cover Flow, to make searching web history or<br />
bookmarks as fun and easy as paging through album<br />
art in iTunes;</p>
<p>° Tabs on Top, for better tabbed browsing with<br />
drag and drop tab management tools and an<br />
intuitive button for opening new ones;</p>
<p>° Smart Address Field, that automatically<br />
completes web addresses by displaying a list of<br />
suggestions from Top Sites, bookmarks and<br />
browsing history;</p>
<p>° Smart Search Field, where users fine-tune<br />
searches with recommendations from Google Suggest<br />
or a list of recent searches;</p>
<p>° Full Page Zoom, for a closer look at any web<br />
site without degrading the quality of the site's<br />
layout and text;</p>
<p>° Built-in web developer tools to debug, tweak<br />
and optimize a web site for peak performance and<br />
compatibility; and</p>
<p>° A new Windows-native look in Safari for<br />
Windows, that uses standard Windows font<br />
rendering and native title bar, borders and<br />
toolbars so Safari fits the look and feel of<br />
other Windows XP and Windows Vista applications.</p>
<p>Safari 4 is a public beta for both Mac OS X and<br />
Windows and is available immediately as a free<br />
download at <a href="http://www.apple.com/safari" title="www.apple.com/safari">www.apple.com/safari</a></p>
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