14 DAY TRIAL // Apple has confirmed that developers registered with their $99 program can immediately download a preview version of Safari 5.1, the latest build of Apple’s web browsing application.
On its Developer connection channels, Apple is telling Safari and Mac Developer Program members that they can “download Safari 5.1 Developer Preview and take advantage of new technologies, including support for full-screen webpages, media caching with the HTML5 application cache, and better graphics acceleration on Windows.”
“Mac Developer Program members can also download Safari 5.1 Developer Preview for Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Windows,” reads the post clipped to Apple’s News and Announcements section for Developers.
“Take advantage of new technologies in Safari, including support for full-screen webpages, media caching with the HTML5 application cache, and new extension APIs,” the Cupertino tech giant adds.
End users will be getting the final version of Safari 5.1 this summer, Apple also said.
However, regular users may not care all that much for the technologies that back Safari, but rather about the graphical and functional elements that make it up, such as the Reading List function.
An eyeglasses icon discovered in Safari 5.1, which came with early Mac OS X 10.7 developer builds, displayed the ability to save content locally for offline viewing.
“If you come across a webpage or link that you want to read later, Reading List gives you an easy way to save the link,” according to the Safari help menu in Lion.
In order to add a page to the Reading List, users must open a page, click the eyeglasses located at the left side of the Bookmarks bar, and click Add Page in the Reading List sidebar.
Apple has since added the feature in the iOS 5 version of Safari (mobile), alongside a full-screen reading function simply dubbed Reader.