HTML 5

Well, I’m not sure about their claim to load pages twice as fast as IE7 and Firefox 2… maybe when javascript has overloaded your browser. Either way, Firefox 3 is faster than Safari by a bit, so it doesn’t matter much to me

Apple has introduced Safari 3.1, an update of the web browser for Mac and Windows, which supports the latest audio, video and animation standards. It’s the first browser to support the new video and audio tags in HTML 5 and the first to support CSS Animations. The upgrade Safari also supports CSS Web Fonts.

Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than Internet Explorer 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2, according to Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers, and is the first browser to support the latest innovative web standards needed to deliver the next generation of highly interactive Web 2.0 experiences, he adds.

Safari 3.1 is available immediately as a free download. The Mac version requires Mac OS X 10.4.11 or higher, a minimum of 256MB of memory and is designed to run on any Intel-based Mac or a Mac with a PowerPC G5, G4 or G3 processor and built-in FireWire. Safari 3.1 for Windows requires Windows XP or Windows Vista, a minimum of 256MB of memory and a system with at least a 500MHz Intel Pentium processor.

Originally posted at: http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/safari_31_adds_support_for_html_5_tags_css_web_fonts/