One of the most talked-about new features is Safari Reader. A small gray "Reader" button now appears in the URL bar when you land on a news website or blog. Click it, and Safari strips out all of the clutter on the page (ads, widgets, sidebars, headers and footers) and presents just the text in a large typeface, cleanly formatted in a white window that floats, lightbox-style, over a darkened page. It also strings multipage articles together in the same window automatically. It´s intriguing to speculate about how Reader, if widely adopted, will change website-design principles by encouraging cleaner, more readable layouts.

This feature really rocks, it almost turns your browser into a kind of Amazon Kindle™. Scott Gilbertson explores this idea in detail in his in-depth look at Safari Reader here on Webmonkey.

For a full review check it out here at Wired New Features Bring Safari 5 Up to Speed

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