Safari 5 Released 308
pknoll writes "Apple has released the fifth version of the Safari web browser, which adds several new features. Reader mode detects multiple-page articles and displays them in their entirety at the click of a button, and most importantly, there is now an official extension API."
Re:It's fully functional. (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Same as Readable App (Score:4, Informative)
The content extraction feature sounds a lot like the Readable Bookmarlet [appspot.com] that I've been running across browsers for the last year.
With the addition of being able to extract data from a multi-page article.
Re:For your safety (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Refuse to test it (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Haha (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Haha (Score:3, Informative)
ctl+meta+shift+/+.
Re:Apple, take your proprietary browser and stuffi (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Refuse to test it (Score:5, Informative)
Chrome does have adblocking now. Does it not work for you?
Another poster explained that Chrome's ad-blocking still downloads the ad, but doesn't display it. This is a problem for anybody on a metered or low-bandwidth connection (e.g. tethering through a cell phone, as I'm doing now) who don't want to download the ads, regardless of whether or not they get displayed. Of course, most people have broadband connections and don't care what gets downloaded in the background, as long as they don't have to see it.
In theory, web sites could try to detect whether an ad was downloaded or not, and refuse to display content unless you've also downloaded the ads. In practice, this isn't normally done, but if it were, with Chrome the web site would still work.
Re:Still no volume control (Score:5, Informative)
Per-application volume control is typically a sound system option; supported through Vista, Windows 7, Pulse Audio, OSS, and I assume OSX. Putting a volume control in the application itself would be redundant at this point.
Re:"The worlds fastest browser" (Score:3, Informative)
webkit has a slight edge on javascript speed, I guess.. some benchmarks say so anyways..
Re:Still no volume control (Score:2, Informative)
Per-application volume control is typically a sound system option; supported through Vista, Windows 7, Pulse Audio, OSS, and I assume OSX.
Wow, you're wrong on so many levels. You presume OS X has per app volume controls outside of apps, but didn't bother to check? Guess what, it does not. Each app is responsible for it's own sound controls and Safari has none. And even if it did have a control in the OS configurations, that's not very useful. Would you make the same argument that Songbird should not have a volume control, because you can just go turn it off in the OS config? That's more than a bit inconvenient don't you think?
Re:OK, so extensions... (Score:2, Informative)
If you don't like the adverts on a site, don't go to the site. Just spare the couple of KB, and get the site you admittedly appreciate some revenue to offset the bandwidth costs they incur to give you the information you want.
Sadly, this was OK 10 years ago. These days, websites have 1-3 flash ads with unoptimized animations. The result is that my laptop heats up and performance degrades considerably even when I'm not watching the ad.
All my local OS's block a few like ads.doubleclick.net, clk.atdmt.com, qksrv.net and ads.x10.com.
Re:If you're not on OSX (Score:4, Informative)
Re:OK, so extensions... (Score:5, Informative)
Well plugins like ClickToFlash still work.
Extension details can be seen here:
http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/Tools/Conceptual/SafariExtensionGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html [apple.com]
An awesome demonstration of what they're capable of:
http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/06/coda-notes-previe/ [panic.com]
Safari 5 fixes 48 security holes! (Score:3, Informative)
Users should also be aware that Safari 5 fixes 48 security holes [apple.com] in Safari 4.0. Therefore, if you are using Safari 4.0, you should upgrade as soon as possible. For Mac OS 10.4, there is Safari 4.1 available instead of Safari 5.0.
Re:Still no volume control (Score:3, Informative)
OSX doesn't.. but Linux and Windows both have per-application volume management... and using chrome, that becomes per-tab volume management.