Apple Safari 5.0.1 features

Safari 5.0.1 is the latest version from Apple and it looks more stylish than the previous version like Mac OS. Bench mark test proves that Safari is one of the fastest browsers. Safari is now even smart, powerful and looking more stylish than ever.

New version of Safari browser is having more improvements in terms of the latest technology like HTML 5, CCS 3, Safari Reader, VoiceOver, Extensions, built in Bing search like Epic browser default Google search.

Safari web browsers latest version includes more advanced and unique features like HTML 5 support, Enhanced performance for the HTML 5 features.

Some of the unique features in Safari Browser are

VoiceOver screen Reader

VoiceOver is one of the features that read the text from the browser and it will read it for you. This feature is a built in feature of Mac OS X. VoiceOver support is not supported in Windows Safari browser. It will read the text as well as links of web sites which are opened in a browser.

Safari Reader

Safari Reader is one the best way to block the flashing ads in web sites which will disturb the user very much. Safari Reader will read the article in a web page and it will open the article alone without ads and other information in an article view. You can enable the Safari Reader by pressing Ctrl + Shift + R will enable the Safari reader and it will appear in the safari browser address bar with Reader button.

ARIA Support in Safari 5.0.1

Safari browser makes developers to read dynamic content of the web for the people with disabilities using ARIA (Accessible Rich internet Applications (ARIA). It is one of the emerging web standards to access the web applications easily accessible. ARIA will support the people who will use the keyboard and cannot use the mouse or the people who depends on screen readers. With the support of ARIA we can easily interoperate with technologies like AJAX and Java script, HTML and its related technologies.

Enhanced Keyboard Navigation

Safari browser supports Enhanced keyboard navigation techniques to navigate the browser without using the mouse. You can use the tab key to move from one filed to another field in a web site and even skip some of the links by hold down the option key when you navigate with tab key to skip and you can open the highlighted links by pressing the enter key. Point and click is improved a lot in new safari browser will reduce the key strokes and avoid using mouse most of the time while navigating in web sites.

Full-Page Zoom in Safari 5.0.1

Safari 5.0.1 supports Full-page Zoom features that will let you to zoom in or out the whole page or portion of a page without using mouse. While zooming text and image will show the text without any blur, as it will scale up without any blur in text. You can customize the zooming toolbar which is in view menu.

Safari support to Minimum font size

All the web sites will not use the same font size, some of the sites many use too small font size that are difficult to read the small text. Safari supports to set the minimum font so that if the size of the text in the web site is small will be automatically zoomed up to the minimum set up in the Advanced pane of the safari browser.

Advanced Web Standards in Safari 5.0.1

Safari 5.0.1 supports most of the new technology and advanced web standards to improve the performance and enhance the user interface of the safari users.

CSS animation is an open web standard for the interactive web with rotate, image fades and many more option. Safari is the first browser to implement CSS animation

CSS Effects will help the web sites to look more polished with the amazing image effects will improve the web sites by simply applying the CSS effects. It is one of the best features in Web sites with few predefined CSS effects

CSS Web fonts allow developers and designers to make web sites with the fonts that they want to include in a web site instead of using the standard fonts. Safari browser will automatically identify such web sites and it will download the fonts as and when it is required. Safari is the first browser which included CSS Web fonts

CSS Canvas is used to place the image elements anywhere in the Canvas using CSS. Safari is the first browser that included CSS Canvas

HTML5 Media support includes support to the HTML5 audio and video tag support which will show the images and videos in a rich manner to the web. HTML5 video supports full screen using the new HTML5Video tag. In addition to that HTML5 video close captions which includes video control by pressing the CC button will show those controls

Using HTML Canvas a specific portion can be automatically stylized by using JavaScript which is originally invented by Apple and now it is part of web standard and safari is the first browser o support such feature

HTML5 offline supports the developers to write the applications in offline and the web applications can be accessible without connected to the internet. Even you can store the applications data in a database.

Hardware Acceleration is supported in Safari browser by which safari browser will act as a Graphics processing unit. By using this feature we can display the graphics, animations in a smooth manner without performance hit.

HTML5 Form Validation is supported in new Safari browser by which we can avoid the server round trip by validating the wrong input in browser which will avoid time and it will improve the server performance.

HTML5 Sandbox Attribute will secure the contents which is inside iframe by restricting the script actions which will stop the unwanted web contents

Apple Safari 5.0.1 browser features