Safari 3.1 Update Released: My Recommended Standards-Compliant Development Browser
March 18th, 2008
Safari 3.1 has been released for both the Mac and the Windows. The update is available via the automatic Software Update on the Mac, or via a manual update on Windows. Of course, you can download a fresh clean install here.
Included in the update is a new Develop menu which contains various web development features, allows access to the web inspector and the network time line, allows CSS editing in the web inspector, and allows user agent spoofing.
On the standards side, Safari 3.1 adds support for CSS 3 web fonts, CSS transforms and transitions, HTML 5 <video> and <audio> elements, offline storage for Web applications in SQL databases, SVG images in <img> elements and CSS images, and SVG advanced text. (Ironically, none of these things are standards yet, but whatever.)
The full release notes can be read here.
Since the launch of Leopard and Safari 3, I’ve been using Safari as my primary development browser. The only thing I miss from firefox is the ability to view the source code on selected text. Other than that, Safari 3 with the debug menu enabled has been the best browser for development on the market, hands-down. With 3.1’s update, this will only improve.
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