From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Computer, Inc for its Mac OS X operating system. It is the standard browser for MacOS X versions 10.3 (Panther) and later.
Safari utilizes Apple's brushed metal user interface, a bookmark management scheme that functions like the iTunes jukebox software, is integrated with Apple's QuickTime multimedia technology and features a tabbed-browsing interface similar to that of Mozilla. A Google search box is a standard component of the Safari interface, as are software services which automatically fill out Web forms and which spellcheck entries into web page text fields.
The code for rendering web pages is based on Konqueror's KHTML engine. As a result, Safari's internal HTML engine is free software and is released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. Improvements to the KHTML code are merged with the Konqueror project. Apple also released additional code (known as WebCore) under an open source 2-clause BSD-like license. The source code for the rest of the browser, including Apple's external GUI, however, has not been released.
Prior to 1997, Apple Macintosh computers had shipped with Netscape Navigator. Microsoft's Internet Explorer was included as the default web browser since then. In June 2003, Microsoft announced it would discontinue development of Internet Explorer for Macintosh. Internet Explorer is included with OS X 10.3, but is no longer the default browser.
Overview
Version history
Other Mac OS web browsers
External links
