digg_url = \’http://digg.com/apple/Apple_releases_Safari_5_0_1_Extensions_Gallery_now_open\’; Safari 5\’s extension support just got an awful lot more useful this morning, as Apple\’s just released Safari 5.0.1, which enables the feature for end users, and opened its official Extension Gallery. Extensions is usually installed from anywhere, but you could consider the Gallery as the App Store for browser add-ons — and it kind of feels decently stocked at launch, with notable entries from Amazon, eBay, Bing, MLB.com, the recent York Times, and Twitter. We\’d expect that number to grow through the years, as extensions are apparently effortlessly inbuilt HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. PR after the break.
Users Can Add New Features Through Extensions
CUPERTINO, California-July 28, 2010-Apple® today released Safari® 5.0.1, turning on Safari Extensions and introducing the Safari Extensions Gallery. Apple introduced extensions support in Safari 5 in June so developers could begin creating extensions with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript web standards. With Safari Extensions Gallery, users can quickly find extensions that add powerful new features to Safari, from toolbars that display live web feeds to subtle programs that filter online page. Safari 5.0.1 allows users to download and install extensions either from the Safari Extensions Gallery or directly from a developer\’s site.
\” Safari 5 has been a major hit, and user response to the innovative new Safari Reader has been fantastic,\” said Brian Croll, Apple\’s vp of OS X Product Marketing. \” We\’re thrilled to work out so many leading developers creating great extensions and think our users are going to love having the ability to customize Safari.\”
\” Millions of our customers already use Amazon Wish Lists to store items they need to buy for themselves or receive as gifts,\” said Gianna Puerini, vp of world Design and Community at Amazon.com. \” With Safari 5, we were ready to quickly build the Add to Amazon Wish List extension that lets customers add items from any website to their Amazon Wish List with the press of a button.\”
\” We\’re excited to continue working closely with Apple to bring visually compelling Bing experiences to Safari,\” said Jeff Henshaw, general manager of Bing User Experience. \” The Bing Extension for Safari brings Bing search intelligence to everyday browsing with Safari. When a user selects text in Safari, Bing instantly recognizes what they could need and pops up helpful, informative tips, from real time maps and driving directions to real time translations to direct web search results.\”
\” Using web standard technologies and Safari\’s extension builder, we developed an MLB.com extension to provide fans in a different way to consume up-to-the-moment baseball content, including live look-ins to games, right from the Safari toolbar,\” said Noah Garden, executive vp, Commerce and Sponsorship at MLB.com.
\” Our extension for Safari is a good way for readers to get all the latest breaking news and your complete important stories, blogs and columns they wish to look,\” said Denise Warren, general manager, NYTimes.com at The recent York Times Company. \” When you browse other sites in Safari, our extension checks for updates and slides in new headlines and thumbnails, so you won\’t miss a specific thing.\”
\” Creating our Twitter extension in Safari couldn\’t had been easier,\” said Jason Goldman, vp of Product at Twitter. \” By providing features like the power to tweet a couple of page and examine trending topics, we\’ve created a straightforward option to deliver relevant, interesting content to people irrespective of where they’re on the net.\”
The Safari Extensions Gallery is out there from the Safari menu or at extensions.apple.com. Users can download and install extensions from the gallery with a single click, and there\’s little need to restart the browser. Extensions could be automatically updated and are easily managed within Safari. Users can enable or disable individual extensions, or turn off all extensions with one click.
Safari Extensions are built with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript web standards, and might have the entire power and functionality of advanced web applications. Every Safari Extension is signed with a digital certificate from Apple to stop tampering and to make sure that updates to the extension are from the original developer. Safari Extensions are sandboxed, so that you can\’t access information on a user\’s system or communicate with websites apart from those specified by the developer. For increased stability, Safari Extensions run solely within the browser.
Safari 5 also features Safari Reader, which presents single and multipage articles on the internet in a new, scrollable view without distracting content or clutter. The Nitro JavaScript engine runs JavaScript up to 30 percent faster than Safari 4.* Built on the open source WebKit engine developed by Apple, Safari 5 includes more than a dozen powerful new HTML5 features for creating media-rich experiences, like full screen playback and closed captions for HTML5 video.
Pricing & Availability
Safari 5 is obtainable for both Mac OS® X and Windows as a free download at www.apple.com/safari. Safari 5 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X Leopard® 10.5.8 or Mac OS X Snow Leopard® 10.6.2 or later. Safari 5 for Windows requires Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7, a minimum 256MB of memory and a system with at the least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor. Full system requirements and additional information on Safari 5 will likely be found at www.apple.com/safari. The Safari Extensions Gallery is obtainable at extensions.apple.com. The Safari Developer Program is free to affix at developer.apple.com/programs/safari.
*Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. All testing conducted by Apple in May 2010 on an iMac® 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Mac OS X 10.6.3, with 4GB of RAM. JavaScript benchmark based on the SunSpider 0.9.1 JavaScript Performance test.
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