WebKit has gotten a new JavaScript interpreter called SquirrelFish that is 1.6 times faster than WebKit’s previous interpreter. This is great news for Safari.

Samsung’s new L870 Smartphone will feature Apple’s Safari web browser (or possibly just Apple’s WebKit). This will be the first non-Apple phone to use Apple’s own browser. The L870 is scheduled to arrive in Europe in August of this year.

Today, Apple released Safari 3.1 for both Mac OS X and Windows. It is a free download at www.apple.com/safari Safari 3.1 is the first browser to support the new video and audio tags in HTML 5 and the first to support CSS Animations. Safari also supports CSS Web Fonts, giving designers limitless choices of fonts to [...]

PayPal has advised its customers to avoid using Apple’s Safari browser, because it lacks some anti-phishing features that some of the other browsers have. Safari also lacks Extended Validation (EV) certificates. While these anti-phishing measures make users feel warm and safe, they are not the “end-all” of web exploitation. The only person who can fully insure [...]

Apple has posted a new update for Safari for Windows. From their site: Changes in Safari 3.0.4 for Windows beta: Latest security updates Improved stability Improved compatibility Improved JavaScript and application launch performance Resize windows from any side New keyboard shortcuts Additional font smoothing option International text input methods Advanced text (contextual forms, international scripts) NTLM support PAC file auto-detection FTP directory listings Link to proxy settings from Safari [...]

I’m more of a Firefox guy, myself, but Robin Harris provides a tip for enabling Safari’s Web Inspector window. Simply open up Terminal.app, and paste this command, then restart Safari: defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true Now, when you right-click (or control-click) on a web page, you will be presented with the new option — Inspect Element.