Safari is a proprietary Internet web browser developed by Apple Inc. 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, commonly known as “OS X Panther.” Apple has also made Safari the native browser for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

On June 11, 2007, a version of Safari was released for the Microsoft Windows operating system, supporting both Windows XP and Windows Vista.

Safari has a 7.13% market share as of November 2008

Features

Safari offers most features common to modern web browsers such as:

• Tabbed Browsing
• Bookmark Management
• A resizable web-search box in the toolbar which uses Google on the Mac and either Google or Yahoo! on Windows
• Pop-up ad blocking
• History and bookmark search
• text search
• Spell-checking
• Expandable text boxes
• Automatic filling in of web forms
• Built-in password management via Keychain
• Subscribing to and reading web feeds
• Quartz-style font-smoothing
• The Web Inspector, a DOM Inspector-like utility that lets users and developers browse the Document Object Model of a web page

Other information

• Developed by Apple Inc.
• Initial release January 7, 2003
• Stable release 3.2.1
• Preview release 4.0 Developer Beta (Build 40A12) (22 August 2008; 120 days ago) [+/−]
• OS Mac OS X
• Microsoft Windows
• iPhone OS
• Development status Current
• Type Web browser
• License Proprietary. Engine under GNU LGPL
• Website apple.com/safari/

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