Hands on: Safari 4 beta fast, mixes polish, rough UI edges
Tue, Feb 24th, 2009 |
Without warning, Apple has released a public beta of Safari 4 for both Mac OS X and Windows. The update brings a variety of new features, broader support for emerging Web standards, and a much more native UI for Windows users, so we took it for a spin.
Headlining Apple's feature list is Top Sites, a display of thumbnails of your most frequently visited sites-perhaps more well known as the "Most Recent" home screen in Google's Chrome browser and Opera's Speed Dial (Microsoft also has a version in betas of IE8)...
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