Safari 4 for Windows and Mac Video

Safari 4 for Windows and Mac Video Transcript

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>> Seth Rosenblat: The [inaudible] awards are going at full throttle, and Apple Safari has emerged as a serious competitor, thanks to its cross-platform appeal and some serious improvements made to its interface and JavaScript Engine. Hi, I'm Seth Rosenblat [phonetic] for cnetdownload.com. In this first-look video, we'll be looking at the new features in Safari. If you used the Safari beta, a lot of this won't be new to you, but for the majority of users, there's a lot of ground to cover. The first thing to catch your eye will probably be the new interface, [inaudible] from Google Chrome. Safari's new layout comes with a more Windows-friendly design, the ability to rip tabs off into new windows, but backs away from the tabs-on-top layout featured in the beta. Tabs are not the star of Safari 4. Cover flow has been ported over from iTunes, and Apple has taken the thumbnail preview page and blown it up with top sites. Top sites shows your most frequently visited websites, a smart change from the most recently visited concept. Thumbnails are now presented against a black background with the URL and site name at the bottom. Click the edit button on the left to remove a site from the list, pin it to the top site view, or change the size of the thumbnails to see more sites. Crashes caused by Flash or Shockwave plug-in failure will no longer crash the browser. Sandboxing the plug-ins allows you to simply refesh the page to activate the plug-in for that page. But this is a tricky feature to demonstrate for obvious reasons. I can show you how to search your history and bookmarks visually though. Move the slider to see thumbnails in a cover flow-style display. An update star will appear on sites that have been updated since you last viewed them. Safari 4 is not all graphics improvements. The new JavaScript Engine Nitro makes Safari one of the fastest browsers on the web, and it's the second browser to score a perfect 100 on the Acid 3 web standards test. Despite using the same rendering engine, users who have gotten used to doing searches from the location bar in Chrome still won't be able to do that in Safari, nor will you see extension support, and that's a deal for many. Worst of all, Windows users, if you don't have a new enough graphics card, you won't see any of the new graphics. Whether you love Safari's speed and visual tweaks or whether you'd rather communicate via smoke signal, all this browser competition means us end users win. The first look at Safari 4, I'm Seth Rosenblat for download.com. ^M00:02:27 [ Music ]