Safari 3.1 to support downloadable web fonts, and paves the way for offline web applications
Safari 3.1, for OS X and Windows, is getting some major upgrades, including downloadable fonts (finally, a true sIFR replacement, something designers have been pining for forever), advanced CSS capabilities like transforms and animations, SQL data storage, and enhanced Javascript DOM functions that will make some scripts run hundreds of times faster.
Apple really seems to be pushing the envelope with Safari, but in a standards-compliant way. With the SQL and Javascript enhancements, Apple is positioning Safari as the premier platform for web applications. They’ve got something up their sleeve, with last year’s port of Safari to Windows and with MobileSafari on the iPhone — should be fun to find out what it is.
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