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What is Safari?

Developed and designed by Apple, Safari is a fully standards-compliant web browser. Safari is the native web browser for Mac OS X, the iPhone and iPod touch.

Safari history
Safari was was first released in 2003 and became the default browser in Mac OS X 10.3 Panther. Version 2 was released in 2005 as the default version for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. Safari 3 is the current version and is the default version included with Mac OS X Leopard. Note that Safari 3 was included as part of the Tiger 10.4.11 update released in late 2007. The first non-beta release of Safari for Windows for Windows Vista and Windows XP was released in March 2008.

Safari technology
Safari is based on the Konqueror KHTML rendering engine and JavaScriptCore which Apple has packaged together into WebCore, Safari's rendering engine. A screen shot of the Safari browser is shown below:

Key Features
The current version of Safari contains features found in many of today's modern web browsers. Safari includes several unique Apple-based features that are capable of leveraging many Mac OS X technologies. Several noteworthy features include:

Tabbed browsing
Pop-up blocking
Built-in RSS reader
Emailing Webpages
SnapBack
Integrated Google search
Bookmarking and history
Web form auto-completion
PDF viewing
Secure surfing
Private browsing
Parental Controls
Spell checking
Built-in password with the Mac OS X keychain
Web Clip
Standards compliance

Created: 8:26 PM on Aug 18, 2008
By: switchtoamac

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