Safari 3.1 Released

Written by on March 18th, 2008 in Ajax News.

Safari

Safari 3.1 has been released, so fire up your software update now (or direct install).

The new release includes features (and many more):

  • JavaScript performance improvements
  • Standards: Adds support for CSS 3 web fonts
  • Standards: Adds support for CSS transforms and transitions
  • Standards: Adds support for HTML 5 <video> and <audio> elements
  • Standards: Adds support for offline storage for Web applications in SQL databases
  • Standards: Adds support for SVG images in <img> elements and CSS images
  • Standards: Adds support for SVG advanced text
  • Developers: Adds option in Safari preferences to turn on the new Develop menu which contains various web development features
  • Developers: Allows access to Web Inspector
  • Developers: Allows access to Network Timeline
  • Developers: Allows editing CSS in the Web Inspector
  • Developers: Allows custom user agent string
  • Developers: Improves snippet editor

There are also nice user features like double-clicking a link to open in a new window, trackpad gestures, and caps lock view on a password field.

(thanks to Richard Kimber for the quick tip)

Source: Ajaxian
Original Article: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/253708500/safari-31-released

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