Apple Safari 3.1 Released

By: Sara Smith
Staff Writer
Published: Mar 18, 2008

The Apple Safari version update can render web pages nearly twice the speed as Firefox 2 and adds support for HTML 5. Offline storage is another part of HTML by caching a portion of a Web page, developers would be able to make their sites load faster by not needing to re-download portions that haven't been changed. The browser can now render web pages 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2 and 1.9 times faster than Internet Explorer 7. JavaScript is also said to load faster with six times the speed as IE7, and four times faster than Firefox 2.

Apple Safari Browser version 3.1 is now out of beta and is boasting the world's fastest webpage loading experience to boot. The new version is available for Mac and PC and also adds support for Web 2.0 features such as HTML 5, audio-video tags and CSS animation.

Safari offline storage is another part of HTML by caching a portion of a Web page, developers would be able to make their sites load faster by not needing to re-download portions that haven't been changed.

According to Apple, Safari 3.1 can now render web pages 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2 and 1.9 times faster than Internet Explorer 7. JavaScript is also said to load faster with Safari, which has become a common part of Web pages in modern sites. The coding would load about six times as fast as IE7, and four times faster than Firefox 2.

Apple has always wanted to develop a fasty cross-platform web browser, which is what Safari offers. The company's keen to build developer support for the iPhone and iPod touch, both of which use Safari for web browsing, as well as for delivering web-based applications.

Safari has been secure from day one and offers private browsing, pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, forms auto-fill, built-in RSS, resizable text fields and easy bookmarking.

Released in January 2008, HTML 5 is planned to be the fifth major revision of the core language of the World Wide Web, The ideas behind HTML 5 were pioneered in 2004 by the Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group.