On Tuesday Apple got back into the browser wars with the public release of Safari 4 Beta. The matched objectives of Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, Opera and Apple were explained by the Digital Design Blog in a post about the migration of web tasks off the desktop and into the cloud. Not surprisingly, the company responsible for iTunes and the iPhone went for a multi dimensional offering. Tech Blorge saw the inclusion of multi-touch features as an iPhone related benefit that might lead to seamless browsing at home or on the road. IntoMobile saw benefits flowing in the other direction, with the hope that Safari's improved JavaScript performance would soon go mobile on the iPhone.

The reaction from most bloggers was almost reverential in nature. Net Tuts walked through the long feature list (some of which were new, some improved and many 'borrowed'). After grappling with some installation issues PC World praised the customization and activity logging features. ZDNet was blown away by the performance, clocking Safari at speeds unreachable by Firefox and Chrome; speeds that made a comparison to IE7 seem almost cruel at a mere 42x in JavaScript rendering. It also appears to be quite a looker, impressing LifeHacker with a number of screenshots they deemed 'eye-candy'.

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