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It sounds like we’ll see a new Safari for iPhone, possibly in the next firmware update. The desktop version is in beta now, and should translate to handset soon. Some of the features being talked about include some interesting clues. Speculation only, we understand… but some reasonably imagined…

It may render non-standard fonts better, giving iSafari better scaling/rendering capabilities… I personally think the rendering is already pretty good, and would NOT sacrifice a bit of speed for the sake of extending font representation.

It may "translate" HTML boxes in real time.. which may offer some neat additional functionality to developers… giving users the ability to scale/rotate/move individual HTML elements, and possibly enhanced coping abilities with fading elements or text and the like.

It will likely be an HTML 5 capable browser which will allow some additional embedding of multimedia elements, controllers, etc. and will support the new SQL API as well.

Here’s the beauty part… it may offer a database browser tool and support for the the SQL storage API. If these show up in the mobile version, they’ll be there to handle local storage of web page applications and device data manipulation…. which may be part of the direction of the native SDK coming very soon.

Good tricks to look forward to… even though there isnt a handset web browsing capability available that comes close the iPhone’s… I bet Apple is, as usual, several steps ahead.. still.