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
Thats amazing! Now that is what I am talking about!
Lou
www.total-anonymity.tk
Coverflow in Safari for History, and bookmarks as well as their top sites implementation is unmatched in any other browser. And it runs great on macs :) I only hate when a new version comes out, I cant check my Hotmail.
"...and new developer tools which we assume will be along the lines of Firebug or Chrome's developer helpers."
Did you not realize that Chrome uses the same developer tools as Safari? They're just hidden by default in Safari. Go to the "Advanced" tab in Safari's preferences and check the box that says "Show Develop menu in menu bar." This will also enable the "Inspect Element" context menu item. They're just the standard WebKit developer tools. That's why they're the same in Chrome and Safari.
@jnrbsn This is why I try to scan the comments before chiming in -- I was about to write the same thing. The Webkit blog (Surfin' Safari) had an entry several weeks ago about recent changes to the Safari/Chrome dev tools http://webkit.org/blog/1091/more-web-inspector-updates/ . Adding these improved dev tools to the shipping version of Safari would be new; the ones included in current versions of Safari are somewhat older than the newer versions included in the nightly builds, discussed above. But Safari has had pretty good developers tools for a while.
Unless they combine the address bar and search bar, I can't see myself switching from Chrome any time soon. Its matured so well and the extensions are beginning to roll in. I can tweak Opera and Firefox into having omnibars, why can't I with Safari, Steve?
the title of this article makes it seem like Jobs will be joined onstage by some cool, hip R&B group. "Ladies and Gentlemen, for your listening pleasure....please welcome....straight from Motown....Safari 5!!!"
Apple please get rid of the ugly hybrid UI in Windows, it sucks! Bring back the old Mac style UI...
If itunes includes itunes cloud streaming services it might be itunes 10?