Review: Safari 4 Beta Browser
Posted on 30 June 2009 by Mark Alessandrew Abitona
Ever wonder who’s getting grounds on the browser war these days!? Well, some might say Mozilla Firefox is taking the lead while in truth Internet Explorer still have the greater market share and consequently the most widely-used browser. Now I wonder what about the rest of the browsers out there? What do they have to offer?
Last week I opted to turn on what’s left of my creative juices and reviewed Safari 4’s beta browser. It took me a few good hours tweaking and testing the browser. Though I don’t have the advance tools and means to test the browser to its full capability but I knew I had covered the basics of what Safari 4 can offer.
TOP SITES
Safari 4’s Top Sites feature displays a user’s most visited sites and or bookmarked sites. Though this feature can be seen in Google Chrome but Safari displays them in 3D. You can set Top Sites as your home page or even the page you’ll see everytime you open a new tab. Just like an iPhone a user can rearrange the site’s position. The blue star displayed on any of the websites means that it has been updated since the last time you visited.
COVER FLOW
Another feature boosted by Safari 4 is the Cover Flow feature. This feature allows a user to flick through recent web pages as you do in your very own iTunes.
FULL HISTORY SEARCH
This new feature allows a user to search for pages he’s been to. The browser digs into texts of a user’s browsing history and based on the typed-in keywords it then presents a list of possibly related websites.
With Safari 4’s Full Page Zoom feature anyone can zoom in and out without worries on page layouts and quality.
Since I never had the tools to test its page load time but it feels fast, for my standards that is. Another cool new feature of Safari 4 is its support for HTML 5 which allows web applications to store information locally even without constant connection to the internet.
Well, what can I say!? With these newly unveiled features of Safari, Mozilla and Microsoft may need to step-up and be at pace with Apple Inc.
images courtesy of Apple.com
The post was written by Beejing of iBeejing.com
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July 21st, 2009 at 10:42 AM
now IE8, firefox, opera and chrome will be alerted with this new safari
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August 31st, 2009 at 2:33 PM
Got the problem with safari. It keeps on asking certificate
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September 2nd, 2009 at 9:59 AM
I think the Google chrome is better than any of these browsers, but any web designers should always put in mind internet explorer first since it is the most widely used browser in the whole world.
I think good marketing wins the market of any digital war, sad to think the best did not make it.
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