Safari Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple confirms some WebKit optimizations unavailable to iOS Apps

by Dana Franklin (Mar 18th, 2011)

The web performance enhancements included in Apple's latest mobile operating system, iOS 4.3, are exclusively available to the Mobile Safari web browser, an Apple spokesperson has confirmed. The optimizations, which double JavaScript performance in ...

Use AppleScript to open current Safari URL in Google Chrome

by TJ Luoma (Mar 14th, 2011)

I've been using John Gruber's suggestions from Going Flash-Free on Mac OS X, and How to Cheat When You Need It to avoid installing Adobe Flash by using Google Chrome (which includes its own version of Flash) whenever I run into a page that has ...

Safari used to hijack MacBook Pro at Pwn2Own 2011

by TJ Luoma (Mar 10th, 2011)

A flaw in WebKit, the engine that underlies Safari, Mobile Safari, and several other browsers, was found to be vulnerable in this year's "Pwn2Own" competition, as reported by ZDNet and many others. This is noteworthy for several reasons: first, ...

Pixelfari browser lets you surf like it's 1982

by Steven Sande (Feb 17th, 2011)

Not every app on your Mac has to be useful -- sometimes you just want to have a little retro fun. That's the idea behind Pixelfari, a free "pixely, 8-bitty" version of the Apple Safari web browser. The browser was the brainchild of Neven Mrgan, who ...

iWork.com beta adds Keynote animations, presentation embedding

by Steven Sande (Jan 10th, 2011)

Users of Apple's iWork.com public beta received an email this morning with an "important service message" about new features and enhancements to the service. In the email, Apple notes that it's now possible to play back Keynote '09 presentations on ...

Xmarks finds new owner, isn't going anywhere

by Mike Schramm (Dec 15th, 2010)

Look at that -- while I was sad to hear that my favorite bookmark syncing service Xmarks would be calling it quits after trying and failing to find a profitable business model, its users stepped in to support the service, and at the beginning of ...

Mac 101: Changing the default web browser in OS X

by Dave Caolo (Dec 10th, 2010)

Apple introduced the Safari browser in January of 2003. Since then, it's matured to include extensions, an RSS reader and even a Windows counterpart. Still, many users prefer another browser. Since Safari is set as the default on every new Mac, ...

New HTML5 and web standards support in iOS 4.2

by Michael Gray (Nov 23rd, 2010)

Mobile Web Programming has a detailed writeup of the new HTML5 and W3C future standards support included in yesterday's iOS 4.2 release. These new APIs haven't been fully documented yet by Apple, but these changes have been uncovered as part of ...

Having Flash installed on your MacBook can reduce battery runtime by 33%

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 4th, 2010)

As if Adobe Flash didn't have enough going against it already. Now it appears that, according to tests done by Ars Technica, having Flash installed on your laptop can reduce your battery runtime by a third. Ars Technica was running battery tests on ...