New Safari 3.0 features come along for the ride with Leopard
Listener Bruce Barr sent me a link to an Apple Insider article that not only details the new Safari 3.0 features (see below) but goes back in time and educates us about Apple browser history. link
In the meantime, according to the article, here are some features in Safari 3.0 that you can check out. You can even get Safari 3.0 right now if you don’t want to wait.
Safari 3.0 on Leopard
Running on Leopard, Safari loses the brushed metal frame it has always had, and adopts the standard unified appearance of other Leopard apps. On Windows, Safari is already there, although its close box is strangely on the wrong end of window’s title bar.
Safari in Leopard also has a new feature called Web Clip. Click the scissor toolbar icon, and Web Clip allows you to select an area of a web page as a web clipping widget for use in Dashboard. The selection arrow turns into a box that locks onto specific regions of the page in the same way the iPhone’s Safari identifies areas for zooming in when its display is double tapped. You can also create a freeform box that can cut out any arbitrary section of a web page.
Once selected, the region becomes a live widget in Dashboard that works identically to loading the full page a Safari window. Clippings can be assigned a custom frame design, and you can load any number of clippings into the Dashboard.
The new Safari can also purge history items at a set schedule, either every day, week, two weeks, a month, annually, or manually. Like other Leopard-savvy apps, it also defaults to directing downloads to the new Downloads users folder, and those files are tagged with the date and time they were downloaded. When you open them, the Finder warns you that the file was downloaded from the Internet, and tells you when, flagging any potential malware as suspicious.
Leopard also indexes a full text content search of bookmarked web pages and history items, so when you search through your history or bookmarks looking for information on a previously viewed page, you don’t have to recall the website, the page title, or anything in URL; you can simply search for the word you are after.
While the rest of Mac OS X Leopard doesn’t come out for another eight days, you can download Safari 3 now for free, both for Mac OS X Tiger and for Windows.
