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Apple has boasting over its Safari 4 for the past few days. The new iteration of the web client claims that it’s the fastest of all the web browsers available currently. According to Apple, Safari 4 is powered via Nitro engine that renders JavaScript 4.2 times faster than the engine used in Safari 3. Another prominent feature of the 4th version of Safari is that it’s the first web browser to support HTML 5 database and advanced CSS features.

But still it doesn’t mean that the Safari 4 will bring an end to all the browsing issues. Certain lab tests show that the Safari is still open to hacking and lacks a full proof code. Charlie Miller, who embarrassed the Apple MacBook Air and was the winner of last year’s Pwn2Own hacking contest, stated that Safari 4 is easy to crack and can be hacked multiple times. Apple has always been disgraced for its unsecured codes and this time also it seems that the company will fail to offer a much secured web browser.

Apart from this the experts believe that the Safari 4 will not offer anything faster in real time. No, that doesn’t mean that there’s some problem with the Nitro. Nitro engine is very much enhanced and works fine under controlled conditions but when it comes to real world web browsing the main bottlenecks are the bandwidth available for downloading content and workflow of the application. It simply implies that a poorly designed web site cannot be loaded speedily, although the Java Script engine can render the pages and execute the content at a blazing speed. So, this is not actually a problem of Safari 4 but as far as the code security is concerned the developers can still do something extra.

Apple Safari has gone through lots of criticisms since its launch. Most of the time the browser was disgraced because of its security loopholes. Safari 4, the latest version of Safari browser claims to be much more secured and reliable than its predecessors. The new iteration of the Apple Safari breaks all the obstructions and now provides more functionality and improved user interaction by supporting HTML 5 codes.

We all know that HTML is the basic language that works behind any web portal. The HTML 5 is the latest version of Hyper Text Markup Language and offers enhanced functionality and improved presentation. It offers support for audio and video tags which makes it easy for the developers to integrate the audiovisuals with the website core code easily. Safari 4 promises to support such codes along with the next-generation web standards. This means the fourth version of the browser will the best to unleash the next level of sophistication and user interaction that Web 2.0 offers.

Safari 4 offers an enhanced way of experiencing the dynamic web content such as flash animations, audio, video and much more. Of course, just like earlier versions of Safari, Safari 4 can be run on any Windows PC, be it the Samsung NC10 netbook, or the Dell Latitude XT tablet PC. Safari 4 also supports Cascading Style Sheets 3 (CSS 3) to offer a stupendous web site presentation. You will now experience new gradients and reflections along with some other visual elements. Apart from Apple, Mozilla has also decided to include support for HTML 5 in the future releases of Firefox.