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Safari Update Continues Pioneering Support for HTML 5

By Michael Calore March 18, 2008 Categories: Software & Tools

safari.jpgApple has released a minor update to its svelte Safari web browser, boosting performance and adding support for more of the web’s bleeding-edge features like HTML 5.

Firefox may be making huge gains in the memory department, but Safari continues to lead the pack when it comes to supporting the latest web advances like HTML 5 or CSS 3. And the latest Safari update is no exception, adding support for even more HTML 5 elements and some new CSS 3 selectors.

Safari 3.1, as the update is known, supports the new HTML 5 <audio> and <video> tags as well as the offline data storage component (think Google Gears, but without Google). Naturally most of these changes aren’t part of Safari itself, but rather WebKit, the underlying rendering engine that Safari and other applications use to display web pages.

Other significant changes include a JavaScript performance boost which Apple claims make Safari up to 6 times faster than competitors when it comes to JavaScript rendering.

Safari 3.1 is available for both Windows and Mac OS X users and you can grab the latest version of Safari through Apple’s Software Update or via a direct download from the Apple website.

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