I just upgraded to Safari 5 about 5 minutes ago... and already feel compelled to blog about it!
Right off the bat, it was noticeably faster loading pages and running scripts! No benchmark tests necessary. Its just noticeably faster.
Secondly, Safari Reader, the new streamlined article reader extension is absolutely beautiful! When Safari recognizes an article embedded in a web page, it enables a "Reader" button in the url. Clicking on the Reader button launches a pdf like reader above the web page, with all the clutter removed, and provides simple scrolling through the entire article. You have to see it to appreciate it. Very nice.
My first question, is how does this work? Is Safari Reader looking for special markup? New HTML 5 article tags perhaps? Nope. It appears it uses an algorithm to score content as being article like; number of child block elements inside a parent element other then body (like div p p p p), with article like content containing comas and particular text patterns, etc.
I'm also looking forward to checking out the super HTML 5 support, and Safari Extensions.
More to read about it all here: http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html
A very fun first 5 minutes!
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