Apple Releases Safari 3.1 [UPDATED]
"Safari 3.1 for Mac and Windows is blazingly fast, easy to use and features an elegant user interface," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. "And best of all, Safari supports the latest audio, video and animation standards for an industry-leading Web 2.0 experience."
The incredible performance of Safari, combined with its elegant user interface, lets users spend more time surfing the web and less time waiting for pages to load. Safari features an intuitive browsing experience with drag-and-drop bookmarks, easy-to-organize tabs, an integrated Find that shows the number of matches in a page and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information.
Safari 3.1 is the first browser to support the new video and audio tags in HTML 5 and the first to support CSS Animations. Safari also supports CSS Web Fonts, giving designers limitless choices of fonts to create stunning new web sites.
Improvements in Safari 3.1
Performance
• Improves JavaScript performance
Standards
- Adds support for CSS 3 web fonts
- Adds support for CSS transforms and transitions
- Adds support for HTML 5
- Adds support for offline storage for Web applications in SQL databases
- Adds support for SVG images in
elements and CSS images
- Adds support for SVG advanced text
Microsoft Windows
- Improves Back/Forward performance
- Supports signed Java applets
- Shows Caps Lock icon in password fields
- Adds support for showModalDialog
- Localized in 16 languages
- Adds support for International Domain Names
- Improves handling of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean text
- Contextual menu now allows opening a link in a window or tab
- Improves pop-up blocking to work with plug-ins
Compatibility
• Increases site compatibility
Stability
• Improves application stability
Developer
- Adds option in Safari preferences to turn on the new Develop menu which contains various web development features
- Allows access to Web Inspector
- Allows access to Network Timeline
- Allows editing CSS in the Web Inspector
- Allows custom user agent string
- Improves snippet editor
Other
- Double clicking on the Tab Bar opens new tab
- Includes URL metadata when images are dragged or saved from browser
- Opens Download and Activity window in current Space
- Supports trackpad gestures for back, forward, and magnify on MacBook Air and compatible MacBook Pro computers
- Shows Caps Lock icon in password fields
Security
• For information about the security content of this update, visit this website.
To update to Safari 3.1, use Apple Software Update or a standalone installer (your editor highly recommends the latter). You only need to use one of these methods to update your computer.
Software Update
Software Update will automatically check for the latest Apple software using the Internet. (You might have followed a Software Update link to this article to learn more about the update.) If your computer is not up-to-date, other available software updates will appear.
Standalone installer
Download the update installer and run it manually. This is a useful option when you need to update multiple computers but only want to download the update once (or just if you want to minimize the potential for problems Ed.).
It's a 15.6 MB download, and you can find it here:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/
Safari 3.1 is available immediately as a free download at http://www.apple.com/safari for both Mac OS X and Windows users. Safari software updates are delivered seamlessly through Apple's Software Update application, which automatically checks for updates.
Safari 3.1 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X Leopard or Mac OS X Tiger version 10.4.11, a minimum of 256MB of memory and is designed to run on any Intel-based Mac or a Mac with a PowerPC G5, G4 or G3 processor and built-in FireWire. Safari 3.1 for Windows requires Windows XP or Windows Vista, a minimum of 256MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor.
*Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. HTML and JavaScript benchmarks based on VeriTest's iBench Version 5.0 using default settings running on an iMac 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Windows XP, with 1GB of RAM.
For more information, visit:
http://www.apple.com/safari
and
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307467
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