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Safari 5 Released

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-and-improved dept.

pknoll writes "Apple has released the fifth version of the Safari web browser, which adds several new features. Reader mode detects multiple-page articles and displays them in their entirety at the click of a button, and most importantly, there is now an official extension API."

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  1. Re:Same as Readable App by Theaetetus · · Score: 4, Informative

    The content extraction feature sounds a lot like the Readable Bookmarlet that I've been running across browsers for the last year.

    With the addition of being able to extract data from a multi-page article.

  2. Re:Refuse to test it by Phroggy · · Score: 4, Informative

    Chrome does have adblocking now. Does it not work for you?

    Another poster explained that Chrome's ad-blocking still downloads the ad, but doesn't display it. This is a problem for anybody on a metered or low-bandwidth connection (e.g. tethering through a cell phone, as I'm doing now) who don't want to download the ads, regardless of whether or not they get displayed. Of course, most people have broadband connections and don't care what gets downloaded in the background, as long as they don't have to see it.

    In theory, web sites could try to detect whether an ad was downloaded or not, and refuse to display content unless you've also downloaded the ads. In practice, this isn't normally done, but if it were, with Chrome the web site would still work.

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  3. Re:Still no volume control by TheCycoONE · · Score: 4, Informative

    Per-application volume control is typically a sound system option; supported through Vista, Windows 7, Pulse Audio, OSS, and I assume OSX. Putting a volume control in the application itself would be redundant at this point.

  4. Re:If you're not on OSX by soppsa · · Score: 4, Informative

    Safari 2 maybe. Safari has not had 'funky rendering problems' in a *long* time. Where do you think Chrome's rendering engine comes from?

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  5. Re:OK, so extensions... by NatasRevol · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well plugins like ClickToFlash still work.

    Extension details can be seen here:
    http://developer.apple.com/safari/library/documentation/Tools/Conceptual/SafariExtensionGuide/Introduction/Introduction.html

    An awesome demonstration of what they're capable of:
    http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/06/coda-notes-previe/

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