nopublica Magazine » Technology http://www.nopublica.com Design, Workflow, Collaboration and Usability Journal Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:31:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Roll out: Safari 4 Beta http://www.nopublica.com/2009/03/roll-out-safari-4-beta/ http://www.nopublica.com/2009/03/roll-out-safari-4-beta/#comments Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:56:02 +0000 Tobias Glawe http://www.nopublica.com/?p=77 Even like out of the box Apple released a public beta of Safari 4 for OS X and Windows. Does anyone snapped any announcements from Apple before? It’s seems developers worked on the sly on the new Safari and indeed, they really did a great job.

So, what’s different? At first some reworked UI-Elements, especially the Tabs. The Browser Tabs are placed now at the top of the application window and uses the complete width of the parent window. From the view of usability key facts that change is reasonable and traceable. A Tab is the primary browsing process of all user actions and instances. Is that needs getting used to? For sure… But a new shortcut for tab switching is now available: ctrl + tab

Okay, what’s also new: Coverflow like Bookmarks and Top Sites, proudly inspired by Google Chrome. The new Safari saves most frequent visited websites there, and announces website updates with a blue star at the right upper corner.

Not visible, but always present is the new JavaScript Engine called “nitro”. If you commonly stay on facebook, you’ll notice it.

It’s stable, it’s fast … so what are you waiting for?

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