Apple announces Safari 4 public beta
WebWare Feb 24 09
Safari 4 will use the Cover Flow interface to let users search their browsing history.
(Credit: Apple)Apple announced the release of a public beta Safari 4 Tuesday, promising a much faster browser with improved navigation and searching.
The company said the newest edition of Apple's browser for both Mac OS X and Windows will run JavaScript 4.2 commands 4.2 times faster than Safari 3, and also claims to deliver better JavaScript and HTML page loading than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 or Mozila's FireFox 3. Apple also added the Cover Flow interface now found in almost every piece of its software to let users scroll backwards through browsing history like they were flipping through album covers, and what appears to be Apple's own implementation of FireFox's Smart Location "awesome bar" called Smart Address Field. Full story...
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