Apple Adds HTML5 Extensions to Safari

Ed Sutherland ()

Apple Adds HTML5 Extensions to Safari

To further promote HTML5 as the future of web graphics, Apple has swung open the door for extensions to the public. While introduced in June to developers, Safari 5.0.1 now can be downloaded. The Cupertino, Calif. company also opened its Safari Extensions Gallery, joining the ranks of Firefox and other browsers extending the basic browser.

Bing, Twitter and the New York Times are among the first extensions available for Safari. “We’re thrilled to see so many leading developers creating great extensions and think our users are going to love being able to customize Safari,” said Brian Croll, Apple’s vice president of OS X Product Marketing.

Safari Extensions are built with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript web standards. They are available for download at the extensions.apple.com site.

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  • Ilgaz

    Extensions installed without requiring a restart but, it seems they get enabled in new pages (bing for example).

    While on it, the most impressive looking and useful extension comes from Microsoft, “Bing”. It adds the same IE 8+ (or 7+?) “right click menu just by selecting text” for instant translation, without leaving page etc.

    Hopefully that team at MS/Bing doing these things doesn’t become victim of their success. You know, normally MS doesn’t code such useful things equaling their Windows/IE combination. Coding the most useful extension for Safari and shipping it with just a dozen other “first” extensions is not something you’d expect from MS. Perhaps they are really figuring how the “web” works.

  • Chas

    Immediately following the announcement, Apple filed suit against Mozilla for Firefox’s infringement on the “Extensions” technology that Apple has just invented.

  • S

    @Chas got any more details or links on it I did a quick google but can’t find it mentioned anywhere on the web. thanks!

  • http://www.facebook.com/esuwito Eddy Suwito

    yeah right i just saw it today on apple download blog also do you want to buy ipad 3 and iphone 5

    ipad 3 now already shipped all you need is buy facebook fans now