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Safari web browser

Safari
Apple Safari 8.0 Icon
Safari 9.0.2 on OS X El Capitan.png
Safari 9 running on OS X El Capitan
Developer(s) Apple
Initial release January 7, 2003; 14 years ago (2003-01-07)
Stable release(s)
macOS 10.1.2 / July 19, 2017; 26 days ago (2017-07-19)
iOS 10.3.3 / July 19, 2017; 26 days ago (2017-07-19)
Preview release(s)
Beta (macOS) 10.1 / January 24, 2017; 6 months ago (2017-01-24)
Technology Preview (macOS) Release 33 (10.1) / June 15, 2017; 60 days ago (2017-06-15)
Development status Active
Written in C++,Objective-C
Operating system macOS
iOS
Windows (discontinued, last version: 5.1.7 on May 9, 2012)
Engines WebKit, Nitro
Type Web browser
License Freeware; some components GNU LGPL
Website apple.com/safari
macOS 10.1.2 / July 19, 2017; 26 days ago (2017-07-19)
iOS 10.3.3 / July 19, 2017; 26 days ago (2017-07-19)
Beta (macOS) 10.1 / January 24, 2017; 6 months ago (2017-01-24)
Technology Preview (macOS) Release 33 (10.1) / June 15, 2017; 60 days ago (2017-06-15)

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple based on the WebKit engine. First released in 2003 with Mac OS X Panther, a mobile version has been included in iOS devices since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007. It is the default browser on Apple devices. A Windows version, now discontinued, was available from 2007 to 2012.

Until 1997, Apple Macintosh computers were shipped with the Netscape Navigator and Cyberdog web browsers only. Internet Explorer for Mac was later included as the default web browser for Mac OS 8.1 and onwards, as part of a five-year agreement between Apple and Microsoft. During that time, Microsoft released three major versions of Internet Explorer for Mac that were bundled with Mac OS 8 and Mac OS 9, though Apple continued to include Netscape Navigator as an alternative. Microsoft ultimately released a Mac OS X edition of Internet Explorer for Mac, which was included as the default browser in all Mac OS X releases from Mac OS X DP4 up to and including Mac OS X v10.2.

On January 7, 2003, at Macworld San Francisco, Steve Jobs announced that Apple had developed their own web browser, called Safari. It was based on Apple's internal fork of the KHTML rendering engine, called WebKit. Apple released the first beta version for OS X that day. A number of official and unofficial beta versions followed, until version 1.0 was released on June 23, 2003. Initially only available as a separate download for Mac OS X v10.2, it was included with the Mac OS X v10.3 release on October 24, 2003 as the default browser, with Internet Explorer for Mac included only as an alternative browser. 1.0.3, released on August 13, 2004 was the last version to support Mac OS X v10.2, while 1.3.2, released on January 12, 2006 was the last version to support Mac OS X v10.3. However, 10.3 received security updates through 2007.


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