top stories

Apple rolls out Safari 3.1 browser

Apple on Tuesday announced that version 3.1 of its Safari browser is available for both Mac and Windows users.

The Web browser now supports a number of new Web standards: HTML 5's latest audio and video tags, as well as CSS Animations. Apple claims that page load times in Safari 3.1 are 1.9 times faster than Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and 1.7 times faster than Mozilla's Firefox 2, and that JavaScript runs as much as six times faster in the new Safari than in other browsers.

Safari 3.1, Apple's latest Windows cross-over

(Credit: CNET Networks)

Apple offers Safari as a free download. The browser, in its Safari 3.0 iteration, was first made available to Windows users last June.

In order to run Safari 3.1, Mac users will need to be using the Mac OS X Leopard or Mac OS X Tiger version 10.4.11 operating systems; Windows users will need to be running Windows XP or Windows Vista.

Originally posted at News Blog
Add a Comment (Log in or register) 2 comments (Page 1 of 1)
by edgedesign March 18, 2008 8:54 PM PDT
Safari is fast and has great support for web standards. Developers may want to enable the DEBUG menu: http://developer.apple.com/internet/safari/faq.html#anchor14 It helps with more than just JavaScript (title in which the directions are listed).
Reply to this comment View reply
Powered by Jive Software

Webware

Webware

COOL WEB 2.0 APPS FOR EVERYONE

CNET
Visit other CNET Networks sites: