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"Apple said Friday that more than 11 million copies of its new Safari 4 web browser have been downloaded in the first three days of its release, including more than six million downloads by users of Microsoft's Windows operating systems."

I'm really looking forward to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard release in September so I can use this to it's potential. But until then, the speed increase is going to have to satisfy me now that I've downloaded the official version. It is supposed to load HTML web pages at least three times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and Firefox 3, and it sure seems a lot snappier. Your copy is waiting at Apple.

"If you have a recent browser build of WebKit nightly, you're going to love this movie trailers demo I've been hacking on. Click on the image above, select a movie trailer, and check out Safari 4's video reflections using CSS Effects. Recent WebKit nightlies with the latest QuickTime installed give the best experience, with flawless transitioned video reflections. Safari 4 Beta also provides a decent experience, but doesn't transition reflections."

I think I'm finally starting to understand why Apple doesn't care if it implements Flash in the iPhone; they want to go open standards on HTML 5 instead. After seeing this demo, there's no reason to think that it can't be done quite nicely. The possibilities are pretty impressive when you consider that all of what you see on this demo site is done without any embedding of any third-party plugins.

Nice thought, no?