7 Wonders Of Safari 4

Top Sites is an elegant grouping of a user's most-visited Web sites. The distinctively sleek, futuristic interface Apple is well known for is not lost in the Safari 4 browser. Top Sites also is "intelligent." The browser learns which sites are most often accessed by a user and will update Top Sites accordingly.

Within the Top Sites view, any Web pages with updated content since the last visit get a star in the upper right-hand corner.

Safari 4 did quite well on the Acid3 test, used as a measure of how well browsers follow certain Web standards. Acid3 is used especially to test the particulars of Web 2.0 such as highly interactive Web sites. Safari 4, Google Chrome and Opera are the only major browsers to score 100/100 on Acid3 testing.

Safari 4 integrates Bonjour, Apple's network discovery protocol that allows users to set up networks without a lot of hassle or configuration. Clicking on Bonjour in Safari 4 listed a NAS in our test network that supported the Bonjour protocol. This is a great way to access any Bonjour-enabled devices all from within the browser.

Cover Flow is a view that utilizes the iTunes interface to allow users to flip through large, graphical images of Web sites in their history mode or find sites that are bookmarked.

Safari 4 supports CSS animation. With CSS animation, Web designers can create more sophisticated Web sites that are aesthetically pleasing and interactive. Although the animation does not show in the slide, clicking on the squares causes the blue boxes to rotate and the gold boxes to scale, as indicated by the boxes' labels.

Probably not. Safari 4 for Windows uses the familiar Windows UI, including title bar and toolbars.