Safari 4.0 Beta

Apple announced a new version of Safari... Download it here...

It's a beta version and a bit unstable, but it's beautiful...

Here are the improvements over the previous version...

ONE

The font rendering all got better in windows... The letters are more legible. I'll have to wait and see if it's the same for the mac version. 

TWO

The page loading speed is astonishingly fast, except for MSN.com. What a coincidence, when I used MSIE(Microsoft Internet Explorer) to download safari, it seemed like the download link was disabled. It seems like the two competitors are trying to interfere in each others way.

THREE

Does a better job on following and supporting the Web Standards.

FOUR

Uses cover-flow when going through your browse history. So, it slightly gives you a similar effect as if you are using the time machine. <- my personal opinion

I think this feature is really good because you really have a hard time looking in the history folder trying to figure out which file indicates the web page you are looking for. The visual aid will be absolutely helpful. The rendering speed is really really fast, so performance may not be an issue (or is it because of my Quad Core CPU computer at work???). Anyway, my assumption is that the pages are retrieved from cache (in case you were curious about my opinion on how it works).

FIVE

Something like speed dial in Opera, except up to 12 pages. Nothing new, but Apple just knows how to make things cooler and better. 

I say again... Nothing really new... Features four and five from above existed before. Not exactly the same thing, but buggy implementations of those ideas were distributed in the form of extensions or toolbars for existing browsers. However, Apple did a superb job to make it work in a cool and neat way... 

     Safari is based on WebKit... 

My team at work is working with WebKit...    

Our team just got so frustrated today...

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