Safari 5 Released

Many web designers may have taken notice of the Safari 5 announcement by Apple this week and the fact that it was later pulled and delayed. Well, now is it official: Safari 5 is ready for download.

There are a number of new features for Safari 5, making it ever more relevant  and a greater threat to Internet Explorer.

Safari 5 Features

• Safari Reader: one continuous, clutter-free view of RSS. Onscreen controls let you email, print, and zoom.
• Greater HTML5 Support: Very exciting for web designers that are looking forward to a more standardized and high functionality  new release of HTML.
• Speedy Nitro Engine: Nitro JavaScript engine
• Bing Search: in addition to Google and Yahoo! search engines ... yeh, choices are good.
• DNS prefetching and better caching: Domain Name System (DNS) prefetching -- lets Safari quickly load previously viewed web pages for you

Plus some smaller but still very fun features:

• Smarter Address Field
• Tabs Settings - open new web pages in tabs — instead of separate windows
• Hardware Acceleration for Windows
• Improved Web Inspector ( yeaaah for designers and pros )