Familiarity with Mountain Lion: new Safari

Together with the release of Mountain Lion Apple updated its browser. Windows-users are out of luck, it is still available only to the old version. Moreover, they say that the development of Win-version of Safari will be discontinued altogether (official confirmation from Apple in this regard has been received).

If you use a Mac, the sixth version of the browser will give you epplovskogo. New Safari was very quick, convenient and neglyuchnym. If you've moved to Chrome for omnibara and generally more user-friendly interface, it's time to go back. Safari 6 is perfect.

apple browser interface has changed. The most noticeable change - an association of the address bar and search forms. Apple in this regard can hardly be called a pioneer. Mozilla announced (but not implemented the) this feature in 2008. Google Chrome is the first browser, which in practice has combined the search bar and enter the address. The new form is called Omnibox. Most people are able to take advantage of this functionality in September 2008.

Better late than never. Well, now, and in Safari can be administered in a single line and website address or search query.

The second noticeable difference - is the appearance of the toolbar button, the new iCloud. It shows a list of all the pages you have open on all your devices. You can be called until just useful, but the real "Nirvana" will come with the release of iOS 6. Then you can start reading the article on the Mac, and then continue to have on your iPad or iPhone. Again, an innovative idea is difficult to call. Their decisions in sync browser data already suggested Google and Opera.

I changed the design of the tabs. They are now seeking to "capture" the whole width of the toolbar. So if you open two tabs, it will be very wide of the tab. Typically browsers tabs make a small, fixed-width (size begins to decrease, if you open a lot of tabs). So Apple went its own way. A good solution or not - time will tell.

Apple also invented a new mode is a quick look at the tabs - Tab View. Something like Expose, something - viewing window in Safari for the iPhone. If you are strong enough gesture zoom out, you can see thumbnails of all open tabs. In my opinion, Tab View - pretty useless idea. I was not able to implement it in your workflow.

It found in the toolbar to place another new button - Share. Visually, it is very similar to iOS-brother. If you like an open page in the tab, you can share the discovery with a few clicks. Click the Share button and send a link via e-mail, Twitter, add bookmarks or reading list. Unfortunately, Share menu can not be edited. So even if you do not use Twitter, you still have to deal with the opportunity to share the something.

Modern web pages are complex. They contain banners, announcements of other articles, links to thematically similar materials... All this can be distracting. In Safari 5, we solved this problem by introducing a special mode of reading, which was named "Text Only» (Reader mode). In one click the user can get a blank page. And even more - if the original article has been broken up into multiple pages, Safari them automatically "sewed".

The sixth version of the browser has kept this possibility. And the Reader has become more prominent. Corresponding button became larger, better located, looks brighter. I noticed that the new Safari interface has become much more likely to use the reading mode "Text Only."

Among other things in Safari finalized "reading list." If you recall, Apple has offered the alternative to Instapaper and Readability. However, to completely abandon the third-party services deferred reading failed - browser on subsequent calls to the stored article again it downloaded from the Internet. If the connection to the network was not, it becomes a problem. Now the article is stored in the memory of the Mac. It can be read at any time.

However, Apple will be just the perfect solution with the release of iOS 6 firmware. Then the possibility of autonomous reading articles will be available for aypadov users of iPhones and iPod-touch. And Apple has a trump card up his sleeve - saved articles pushatsya automatically on all devices. In the case of Readability and analogues user has to connect the gadget to the trip to the Internet and download your previously saved content. Usually forget about it.

Safari is a better support modern web technologies (HTML5, CSS filters, SVG, etc., etc.). Advanced websites, if you allow them to, can even send alerts and messages that will appear in the Notification Center.

I've always liked the Safari, but mainly from the aesthetic side (better looks, better displays fonts). However, Chrome was faster and developed more actively. Finally, in Safari for a long time it was simply stunning bug where pages spontaneously overloaded. So basically it is used Google browser.

For the first time in a long time Safari looks comfortable, reliable, stable browser.