PRESS RELEASE
28 July 2010
Apple Updates Safari 5
Users Can Add New Features Through Extensions
AUCKLAND, New Zealand—29 July 2010—Apple® today released Safari® 5.0.1, turning on Safari Extensions andintroducing the Safari Extensions Gallery. Apple introduced extensions support in Safari 5 in June so developers could begincreating extensions with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript web standards. With Safari Extensions Gallery, users can quickly findextensions that add powerful new features to Safari, from toolbars that display live web feeds to sophisticated programs thatfilter web content. Safari 5.0.1 allows users to download and install extensions either from the Safari Extensions Gallery ordirectly from a developer's site.
“Safari 5 has been a big hit, and user response to the innovative new Safari Reader has been fantastic,” said BrianCroll, Apple’s vice president of OS X Product Marketing. “We’re thrilled to see so many leading developerscreating great extensions and think our users are going to love being able to customise Safari.”
“Millions of our customers already use Amazon Wish Lists to store items they want to buy for themselves or receive asgifts,” said Gianna Puerini, vice president of Worldwide Design and Community at Amazon.com. “With Safari 5, we wereable to quickly build the Add to Amazon Wish List extension that lets customers add items from any website to their Amazon WishList with the click of a button.”
“We’re excited to continue working closely with Apple to bring visually compelling Bing experiences toSafari,” said Jeff Henshaw, general manager of Bing User Experience. “The Bing Extension for Safari brings Bingsearch intelligence to everyday browsing with Safari. When a user selects text in Safari, Bing instantly recognises what theymight need and pops up helpful, informative tips, from real time maps and driving directions to real time translations to directweb search results.”
“Using web standard technologies and Safari’s extension builder, we developed an MLB.com extension to give fansanother way to consume up-to-the-moment baseball content, including live look-ins to games, right from the Safaritoolbar,” said Noah Garden, executive vice president, Commerce and Sponsorship at MLB.com.
“Our extension for Safari is a great way for readers to get all of the latest breaking news and all the important stories,blogs and columns they want to see,” said Denise Warren, general manager, NYTimes.com at The New York Times Company.“While you browse other sites in Safari, our extension checks for updates and slides in new headlines and thumbnails, soyou won't miss a thing.”
“Creating our Twitter extension in Safari couldn't have been easier,” said Jason Goldman, vice president of Productat Twitter. “By providing features like the ability to tweet about a page and view trending topics, we've created a simpleway to deliver relevant, interesting content to people regardless of where they are on the web.”
The Safari Extensions Gallery is accessible from the Safari menu or at extensions.apple.com. Users can download and install extensions from the gallery with asingle click, and there’s no need to restart the browser. Extensions can be automatically updated and are easily managedwithin Safari. Users can enable or disable individual extensions, or turn off all extensions with one click.
Safari Extensions are built with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript web standards, and can have all the power and functionality ofadvanced web applications. Every Safari Extension is signed with a digital certificate from Apple to prevent tampering and toverify that updates to the extension are from the original developer. Safari Extensions are sandboxed, so they can’taccess information on a user’s system or communicate with websites aside from those specified by the developer. Forincreased stability, Safari Extensions run solely in the browser.
Safari 5 also features Safari Reader, which presents single and multipage articles on the web in a new, scrollable view withoutdistracting content or clutter. The Nitro JavaScript engine runs JavaScript up to 30 percent faster than Safari 4.* Built on theopen source WebKit engine developed by Apple, Safari 5 includes more than a dozen powerful new HTML5 features for creatingmedia-rich experiences, like full screen playback and closed captions for HTML5 video.
Pricing & Availability
Safari 5 is available for both Mac OS® X and Windows as a free download at www.apple.co.nz/safari. Safari 5 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X Leopard® 10.5.8 or Mac OS X SnowLeopard® 10.6.2 or later. Safari 5 for Windows requires Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7, a minimum 256MB ofmemory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor. Full system requirements and more information on Safari 5can be found at www.apple.co.nz/safari. The Safari Extensions Gallery is available at extensions.apple.com. The Safari Developer Program is free to join at developer.apple.com/programs/safari.
Safari 5 is available for both Mac OS® X and Windows as a free download at www.apple.co.nz/safari. Safari 5 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X Leopard® 10.5.8 or Mac OS X SnowLeopard® 10.6.2 or later. Safari 5 for Windows requires Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7, a minimum 256MB ofmemory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor. Full system requirements and more information on Safari 5can be found at www.apple.co.nz/safari. The Safari Extensions Gallery is available at extensions.apple.com. The Safari Developer Program is free to join at developer.apple.com/programs/safari.
*Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. All testing conducted by Apple in May 2010 on an iMac® 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Mac OS X 10.6.3, with 4GB of RAM. JavaScript benchmark based on the SunSpider 0.9.1 JavaScript Performance test.
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