After speedy new updates to Opera and Google Chrome, Safari's looking pretty slow these days. Fortunately for Apple, Safari 5 might be ready to go at Apple's developer conference, WWDC, later this week. Although the focus of WWDC looks like it will mostly be mobile -- that impending new iPhone and the just-released iPad are hot hot hot -- the desktop version of Apple's browser could get some love, too.According to French Mac blog MacGeneration, Safari 5 will offer a big 25% bump in JavaScript rendering performance, a new more-readable article viewer called Safari Reader, and improved HTML5 support. As we just reported, Apple is touting its HTML5 capabilities with new (sort of) Safari-only demos, so this would be a great strategic moment to launch a major new browser upgrade.
OS X 10.6.4 is also potentially on the cards for WWDC. MacGeneration says it will mostly just offer bug fixes, as well as Apple's now-familiar line about enhancing "the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac."
[via 9to5Mac]
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