Safari 1.3

By Scott McNulty

Attention Safari lovers (I count myself amongst your numbers), hide within Mac OS X 10.3.9 is Safari 1.3. Sure, it isn't Safari RSS, but who doesn't love a point release?

According to Dave Hyatt, one of the developers of Safari, this release's layout engine is virtually identical to Safari RSS (coming to a Tiger near you April 29th), but of course all the nifty new features of Safari RSS aren't included.

What is included? Dave has ya covered. Here are some quick bullet points:

  • Safari 1.3 loads pages almost 35% faster than 1.2
  • JavaScript performance has been enhanced
  • HTML editing is supported
  • Supports more CSS options
  • XSLT is now supported
  • An enhanced plugin architecture is debuting in 1.3

The biggest feature, of course, is Safari 1.3 is just plain faster than any other version of Safari (currently available that is).
 

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