According to a report from French blog
MacGeneration, one of the announcements on tap for Monday's
WWDC 2010 keynote (which
we'll be covering live, by the way) is a major update for Safari -- namely, version 5. If you believe the docs the site has obtained, there are more than a few big changes coming, including Bing now alongside Yahoo! and Google search options, a new "Safari Reader" for better / easier RSS reading (we're hoping they're taking a cue from Google on this), 25 percent faster JavaScript performance and DNS prefetching (hello, Chrome), improved HTML5 support (no big surprise there), and new developer tools which we assume will be along the lines of Firebug or Chrome's developer helpers. So we hope. The update will allegedly also add hardware acceleration for Windows PCs, an address field that auto-predicts URLs (they're calling it a "Smart Address Field"), and a handful of other minor tweaks and snips. Furthermore, there's an expected minor bump to Snow Leopard (10.6.4) which will resolve some nagging issues, though nothing really more than that. As we're sure you're aware, the next 48 hours or so are going to be filled with all sorts of nutty rumors about what's happening at Monday's keynote -- we'll try and separate the wheat from the chaff for you.
posted June 5th 2010 10:01PM
Make this one awesome Steve, or I won't switch back from Chrome. Promise.
@SolidSnake
safari is so ugly and slow. ie8 is better
@WindowPhoneOwnsAndroid Not on Mac OS X. I mean come on. You expect an OS X app to look good in Windows? It clashes with the OS itself. So obviously it looks like poop.
@WindowPhoneOwnsAndroid What kinda of crack are you on? IE8 is slower than any other browser available on the market. I mean ANY! Safari, FF, Chrome, Opera and many others. It's rendering engine is an attempt to patch the engine from the first IE and was always lacking compatibility, speed and features.
@bathellfire
A lot of Firefox and Chrome advocates like to cling to micro-benchmarking page load claims to measure browser speed. But in most cases, these differences can only be viewed by slow-motion video captures, and they just don't represent real world examples. If you're still hung up on millisecond page load times to gauge performance, watch this video for a head-to-head comparison.
@SolidSnake
Safari is dead, chrome just finished the last nail in the coffin. Apple is so 2008.
@wraith404 .. You really are an idiot. Apple is still the primary contributor to WebKit and was the main driver behind the WebKit2 branch.
@SolidSnake
I'm definitely not an Apple fan, however I do like Safari to Test sites against. Whatever the site looks like in Safari, it will most likely look the same in other browsers including IE. I don't even bother testing in other browsers until I'm nearly the final stages, then of course, I test on EVERYTHING!
@wraith404
safari and chrome both have 2% marketshare, chrome was designed by fisher-price, so ugly and stupid
@WindowPhoneOwnsAndroid
You am idiot. Chrome has 8% marketshare
Safari on osx runs great just like itunes
Every Apple software runs like shit on Windows
@DefPoet
hhahaha good one.
@WindowPhoneOwnsAndroid I don't use any benchmarks. I develop web based applications for large companies (local web server), mobile web applications and complex web based CRM systems. I've been doing it for the past 6 years. Trust me, I don't need any benchmarks to tell you which browsers are good and which ones suck.
Why does IE has such a high market share? Trust me, not because it's good. It's because when you get Windows, you get IE. A lot of people don't even know that there are alternative browsers. They see "Internet E..." and think that this is the only option to get online. That's the reason why MS is getting sued in EU (they can't force install IE on any new installs of Windows).
IE is old. Not the "version 8" old, i mean the whole engine that powers the browser is old. There are certain standards that developers follow (W3C compliance). Safari, Opera, Chrome, FF all follow these standards. Guess what, IE doesn't (even at simple shit like padding).
In regards to speed, you don't need any benchmark software to feel that rendering things on IE takes longer than on FF or Chrome. Not to mention that the entire browser feels sluggish and awkward to use. The best (from user prospective) UI was in IE6. Yes, it wasn't "bling bling", but it was simple and made sense. IE7, IE8 - overcomplicated, buggy, slow. Did i mention the lack of features and expansions?
@DefPoet
my shit is definitely running today, must be the taco bell
@WindowPhoneOwnsAndroid
Him calling you an idiot is a good thing?
--were you emasculated early in life or something?
@WindowPhoneOwnsAndroid
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say you're Becauseitsnotgoogle(2).
"so ugly and stupid"
Really? A browser is stupid... You need some sense knocked into you for thinking IE is the best.
@McKirf
No if it looks good in Safari, it will mostly likely render with the same results in Chrome and FF.
IE is a pig and handles web standards horribly. Because there is such a huge discrepancy between IE and the other browsers, I'm stuck needing a emulator or bootcamp to test for inconsistencies.
@DefPoet Safari, Quicktime and iTunes epitomize the crapware Apple attempts to push off on Windows users!
They are all super slow to open and some come with some pretty nifty malware that isn't removed, even when you have uninstalled it. I keep wanting to give Apple the benefit of the doubt on Safari. But I install it and it lasts all of about 1hour and it's gone every time. Then I'm back on Firefox or better yet Chrome.
Chrome makes a mockery of Safari, even though they are both rooted in Open Source KDE (KHTML) Webkit Tool Set. They do it in both speed and user enhancements in both looks and extensions. iTunes too, is the worst crapware on any platform except OS-X..... maybe! For them it's normal and all they know, because of their blind cult allegiance to Apple.
Quicktime? ....save your money and time even messing with it by installing Kazaa-Lite Mega Codec Pack with Home Theater Player in Windows. Where your CHOICE is KING! ...NOT controlled by iHitler Jobs and his merry band of iNazis! xD
btw.... Sony used to be the DRM King. But they've been upstaged by Apple. (DRM = Digital Rectal Manipulation)
@DefPoet
"Every software runs like shit on Windows"
Fixed :D
@WindowPhoneOwnsAndroid
Mate, you got issues. It's like you come to tech sites to argue. Even your username would piss some people off.
And no, Safari is far better than Internet Explorer. I.E seriously is slow.
@SolidSnake
You know that you can follow on a android 2.2 beta nexus one powered. Look at this. http://www.android-pour-les-nuls.fr/actualites/android/300-apple-demo-running-on-android-22
Most of safari html5 are running on froyo
@DefPoet that argument is completely true...XP and average vista machines yes...I have a windows 7gateway with 2.93 ghz, 6gb ram, 1tb hardrive for $500, works as good as a mac, and iTunes works great, I use chrome, but safari would work great still...chrome is windows version of safari in every way except the design, I'm still agreeing with you, I just have a special case, and my old xp machines that I used for 8 years took 6 minutes to open iTunes
@SolidSnake
meh, these rumors are too true
Wow, Safari 5 is a big event for Apple. Yet Opera comes out with a new release on a regular basis and no body seems to notice.
Safari sucks...
@Sofabutt Really? I love Safari on OS X. Chrome for Windows. Safari is actually quite awesome & usuable on OS X. Though I better my experience by using plugins like GLIMS & Safari Adblock. Universal Undo is awesome.
@Sofabutt
Yeah, Safari is good. Safari is my favourite browser on OS X, but use chrome on windows as above.
@Sofabutt
I find Chrome on OS X faster but Safari is still my default because of better Bookmarking (Cover flow), Top Sites and support for Cool Iris.
@Sofabutt
Yea and umm... what happened to all the FireFox rage 2 years back? What have I missed? o.0
@Sofabutt Safari is powered by WebKit, the engine that (primarily) Apple built from KHTML 8 years ago and maintains. It's also the same engine that's powering Chrome, webOS, the Android browser, the new BlackBerry browser, HTML in Adobe Air and Steam.
So when something like WebKit 2.0 comes around and there's announcements to be made, yeah—it's kind of a bigger deal than Opera.
(Not to mention of course that nobody uses Opera, whereas Safari is the #1 mobile browser in use today as far as I know)
Who uses Safari on Windows? Seriously.
@fel Masochists?
@fel
Well, taking a page from the Fandroids about Android marketshare:
I use it and I know 3 of my friends that have switched to it, so Safari will be the main internet browser by 2011.
@fel Until I bought my MacBook I did. Ran well. apple rules, duh.
@BlondeBuddhist I do. Chrome is too buggy on my XP and Explorer--- dont even get me started. Safari does what i need it to do and does it well actually.
@fel
Safari runs like ass on Windows, just like Quicktime., so no.
@fel
People are two poor to buy Macs but have no common sense.
@redhineymonkey Funny fanboy is funny. :)
@d3sc3nd3ncy too*
@fel
I do, but only under a virtual machine in order to test web-site consistency amongst browsers.
@d3sc3nd3ncy People are not too poor. You are just a f@ckin idiot. Ever heard of Alienware? They own Macs, and I have a Mac. You have no common sense and you don't know how to spell a three letter word. Go somewhere else to troll, @sshole.
@fel
I did for a while, until I could get a Mac.
@tusing To most normal people Alienware notebooks are too heavy and ugly to use....MacBook pros are a superb combination of style, build quality, battery life and performance.
If you'd rather buy a Dodge Challenger over a BMW 3 series you'll also take an Alienware over a Macbook Pro. Different tastes.
Safari rocks.
Thinking about making it the standard browser on my company's in house image. I'll let you know how it goes.
@redhineymonkey Can't wait to know...
Extensions for the Windows version, please.
Also, FASTER!
Automatically open new web pages in Tabs instead of separate windows.... thats so awesome. What were the other browsers doing all this time?
You can set Firefox to do the same, and I believe IE too.
@abedinthehouse
I was being sarcastic.....Opera had this feature since the dark ages of Vista or probably even b4 that.
@abedinthehouse uh...Firefox, IE, and Chrome already do this. No "option setting" required....
@ssguy
Safari 4 does that too. Obviously you've never used it.
@ssguy
I remember doing that in Opera when I was using Windows Me.
Let that sink in.