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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Safari 4.0 Beta

It's been a couple of days since Apple released Safari 4 for beta, and just from seeing the screen shots it looks really nice. It's what I would expect from Apple, elegant and robust; two features that I have yet to see from Microsoft. Some of the new features include: Cover Flow for bookmarks and history, Smart Address Field (similar to Firefox 3's address bar), a Web Inspector that will really come in handy for web developers, and the list goes on and on (Apple's Safari website lists 150 features).
Not only does it include really cool eye candy, but a revamped JavaScript engine which currently makes it the fastest browser in the market, beating even Mozilla's experimental browser Minefield. According to ZDnet.com, they ran the SunSpider benchmarking tests for browsers on Safari 4, Firefox 3, Minefield, Chrome, Opera 9.6, and IE8, and Safari 4 came out on top. It'll be a matter of time before more testing results come out and I can make a definitive conclusion about which browser is the fastest, but in the mean time I am going to proceed to download Safari 4 beta to my windows box and check it out. I'll keep you guys posted on my review.

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1 Comments:

Blogger iLiam said...

Great writeup Deputy. I'm a sucker for beta's and am now running Safari 4 on my Mac and Windows box.

Wed Feb 25, 11:26:00 PM 2009  

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