At the beginning of May I wrote an article with some stats on OS and browser share and, perhaps labouring under the misapprehension that some people found it interesting, have decided to revisit those stats after roughly three months have passed.
The figures are taken from the period 27th April to 27th July, and are the mean average of two different sites I manage. For more details on audience and traffic I refer you back to the previous article.
At the recent unveiling of OSX Mavericks Apple also announced Safari 7, with greatly improved web standards support. It was left a little unclear as to which versions of OSX it would run on, but browsing through their developer area this week I found a downloadable pre-release of Safari 6.1, which I think clears that up: it seems Safari 7 will be exclusive to Mavericks, while 6.1 will run on Lion and Mountain Lion, with all of the web standards support of Safari 7, but only a limited set of new features.
As both versions are a major update for the browser, bringing almost a year’s worth of WebKit updates, I thought it would be useful to take a look through the new and updated features in each, as well as trying to identify where they differ.