Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included with the Mac OS X and iOS operating systems. First released as a public beta on January 7, 2003 on the company's Mac OS X operating system, it became Apple's default browser beginning with Mac OS X v10.3 "Panther". Safari is also the native browser for iOS. A version of Safari for the Microsoft Windows operating system, first released on June 11, 2007, supports Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7. The latest stable release of the browser is 5.1.1, which is available as a free download for both Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. As of October 2011, Safari hold on 62.17 percent of mobile traffic, although as web browser gets only 8.72 percent as the fourth most popular web browser, behind Internet Explorer (49.6 percent), Mozilla Firefox (21.20) and Google Chrome (16.60).
Safari offers numerous features, including :
- Ability to save webpage clips for viewing on the Apple Dashboard (Mac OS X only)
- A resizable web search box in the toolbar which allows choice among Google, Yahoo! or Bing only
- Automatic filling in of web forms ("autofill")
- Bookmark integration with Address Book
- Bookmark management
- Built in password management via Keychain (Mac OS X only)
- History and bookmark search
- Expandable text boxes
- ICC color profile support
- Inline PDF viewing (Mac OS X only)
- iPhoto integration (Mac OS X only)
- Mail integration (Mac OS X only)
- Popup ad blocking
- Private browsing
- Quartz style font smoothing
- Reader mode, for viewing an uncluttered version of Web articles
- Spell checking
- Subscribing to and reading web feeds
- Support for CSS 3 web fonts
- Support for CSS animation
- Support for HTML5
- Support for Transport Layer Security protocol (version unknown)
- Tabbed browsing
- Text search
- Web Inspector, a DOM Inspector like utility that lets users and developers browse the Document Object Model of a web page.
On Mac OS X, Safari is a Cocoa application. It uses Apple's WebKit for rendering web pages and running JavaScript. WebKit consists of WebCore (based on Konqueror's KHTML engine) and JavaScriptCore (originally based on KDE's JavaScript engine, named KJS). Like KHTML and KJS, WebCore and JavaScriptCore are free software and are released under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License. Some Apple improvements to the KHTML code are merged back into the Konqueror project. Apple also releases additional code under an open source 2 clause BSD like license. It includes a built in web feed aggregator that supports the RSS and Atom standards. Other features include Private Browsing (a mode in which no record of information about the user's web activity is retained by the browser), the ability to archive web content in the proprietary Webarchive format, the ability to email complete web pages directly from a browser menu, and the ability to search bookmarks.
Safari System requirements :
- Safari 5.1 requires either a Mac running Mac OS X v10.6.8, or a PC running Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, or Windows 7. Official minimum hardware requirements for Windows state a 500 MHz Pentium processor with 256 MB of RAM for Windows. Cover Flow and Top Sites require a graphics card that is Quartz Extreme compatible with 16 MB or more video memory for Mac or DirectX 9 compatible with 64 MB or more video memory for Windows.
- Safari 5.0.6 requires a Mac running on Mac OS X 10.5.8.
- 64 bit builds
- The version of Safari included in Mac OS X v10.6 is now compiled for 64 bit architecture. Apple claims that running Safari in 64 bit mode will increase rendering speeds by up to 50%.
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