AppleInsider Staff
The update, officially identified as "Developer Preview 2," came quickly after developers were supplied with the first preview of Safari 6 last Monday, following the Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. The installer allows developers to test Apple's next major update to its Safari Web browser within OS X 10.7 Lion.
People familiar with the updated build indicated that it addresses a crash that would occur when typing a string ending with two periods in the address field. In the first developer preview, typing two periods or auto-completing an address with two periods would reportedly crash the software.
One of the biggest features in the forthcoming Safari 6 update is iCloud Tabs, which syncs open websites across devices such as Macs and iOS hardware. Another new feature, called Tabview, allows users to zoom in and out with multi-touch gestures to see all of their tabs currently open in Safari.
For developers, Safari 6 features a new application programming interface for "Web Audio." It will allow them to create and customize audio effects in interactive Web applications that have rich media content, such as games or instrument simulators.
New CSS filters are also built in to Safari 6, allowing developers to create advanced filter and pixel effects, like blurs and gradients. HTML 5 support has also been enhanced with web notifications, timed text tracks, and media synchronization.
Safari 6 also sports improved javascript support, with the latest version of the standard, ECMA 262 version 5.1 It also has a feature that detects when Private Browsing is enabled, and gives developers the ability to build extensions that use stylesheets and scripts to change the appearance of articles viewed in Safari Reader.
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How often does that come up? I didn't even know it crashed… Still crashes for other reasons, though. :lol: And I like the idea of Tabview, but the implementation is absolutely horrendous. It needs to be a GRID, like on the iPad before iOS 5 (or was it 4). I don't want to see a smaller version of ONE tab and like a third of two other tabs on either side. That's idiotic. I want to SEE my tabs, otherwise there's no point to having that mode at all.
For me it used to crash every time I would start a URL with "r"
Safari 6 in ML beta 4.1 has been very stable. In fact it's been the best version of Safari since ML first appeared.
How often does that come up? I didn't even know it crashed…
Still crashes for other reasons, though.
And I like the idea of Tabview, but the implementation is absolutely horrendous. It needs to be a GRID, like on the iPad before iOS 5 (or was it 4). I don't want to see a smaller version of ONE tab and like a third of two other tabs on either side. That's idiotic. I want to SEE my tabs, otherwise there's no point to having that mode at all.
I see your point. I think Apple's implementation is more about eye candy than functionality. In Firefox Tab Groups is more useful and lays out in a grid. I think Apple wanted to make it's tab layout unique from Firefox and Chrome for the Mac. I like Chrome's implementation for the Mac the best. It's not enabled by default.
[quote name="crisss1205" url="/t/150841/apples-second-developer-preview-of-safari-6-fixes-crashes#post_2132121"]For me it used to crash every time I would start a URL with "r"[/quote] That's the biggest problem I had under Lion with preview 1. Even on ML preview 4 it would crash every now and then when typing in letters in the address bar. The recent preview update fixed it.