hey guys it's Greg with Apple explained
and today we're gonna explore the
history of Safari this topic won last
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in your Activity Feed now Safari is
Apple's web browser that was released
back in 2003 with Mac OS 10 point 3
Panther but you might be wondering what
web browser did the Mac use before
Safari was created well it used Netscape
Navigator which was the most popular web
browser at the time thanks to a very
special capability where text and
graphics appeared on the screen
simultaneously as the web page loaded
now that may not sound like a very
special feature today but earlier web
browsers would stay completely blank
until 100% of the web content loaded
which man it could take up to three
minutes just to load one web page
Netscape Navigator served as the Mac's
default web browser until 1998 and what
happened next was quite fascinating when
Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1997 he
found the company and much worse
financial shape than he expected
discovering there were just 90 days from
bankruptcy and those desperate times
called for desperate measures
Steve Jobs initiated talks with
Microsoft the arch-nemesis of Apple in
those days and tried working out an
investment deal you see Apple had a
long-running lawsuit that claimed
Microsoft copied the look and feel of
Windows from the Macintosh operating
system this gave apples some leverage in
negotiations by offering to drop the
lawsuit if Microsoft invested in Apple
but there was another factor at play
Microsoft was in the middle of an
antitrust fight over its forceful
promotion of Internet Explorer which was
tarnishing Microsoft's image with
consumers and could lead to an antitrust
lawsuit from the US government so it was
actually in Microsoft's interest to
negotiate a deal with Apple in order to
keep them around as a competitor as the
deal took shape five specific terms were
agreed upon by both parties first
Microsoft had to make a one hundred
fifty million dollar investment and
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Microsoft didn't have any say in
decisions Apple made despite being a
large shareholder second both Apple and
Microsoft would establish patent
cross-licensing so any existing or
future patents created within five years
would be shared between both companies
third Microsoft would commit to creating
Mac versions of Microsoft Office for a
five-year period with the same number of
major releases as Windows 4th Microsoft
and Apple would collaborate on Java
compatibility to strengthen its
viability as a competitor fifth was that
every Mac had to ship with Internet
Explorer as the default web browser and
not many people were happy about that
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but the blow was softened when Jobs
clarified that users could change the
default web browser back to Netscape
Navigator which still shipped with every
Mac so Internet Explorer served as the
Mac's default web browser for 5 years
until the deal with Microsoft expired in
2003 and this gave Apple the opportunity
to introduce a web browser of their own
On January 7th 2003 at Macworld in San
Francisco
Steve Jobs announced that Apple had
developed their own web browser called
Safari it was based on Apple's internal
variation of the KHTML rendering engine
called WebKit Apple released the first
beta version for iOS 10 that day a
number of official and unofficial beta
versions followed until version 1.0 was
released on June 23 2003 Safari was
available as a separate download for Mac
OS 10.2 Jaguar but was included with the
Mac OS 10 point 3 panther release on
october 24 2003 even with Safari as the
default browser Apple decided to keep it
in an Explorer on the Mac as an
alternative the second version of Safari
came just two years later and did
something quite interesting
thanks to debugging and optimisation
work done by Apple Safari developer Dave
Hyatt Safari 2 was the first web browser
to pass the acid2 test now acid 2 was a
test page created by the web standards
project to expose page rendering flaws
in web browsers and other applications
that rendered HTML its purpose was to
encourage adoption of universal web
development standards so web developers
didn't have to waste time tweaking their
websites to display correctly across
different browsers establishing a
universal web standard was very
important without it the internet would
have likely become fragmented into
pockets of incompatible content with
certain websites only available to users
who had the right browser the acid2 test
was targeted toward Internet Explorer in
particular since I didn't follow hardly
any web standards at all something that
frustrated users and developers alike
since it was prone to display web pages
differently from other browsers this
forced web developers to spend extra
time tweaking their web pages in order
to display correctly on Internet
Explorer but Microsoft dismissed acid2
describing the test as a wish list of
features rather than a true test of
standards compliance but over time
more browsers began passing the test and
pressure mounted on Microsoft to do the
same which they eventually did with
Internet Explorer 8 in 2007 two years
after Safari
in addition to passing the asset to test
Safari 2 featured a 1.8 times speed
boost over the previous version On
January 9th 2007 Apple introduced the
iPhone it was the first time Safari was
available on a mobile device and later
that year Apple announced Safari 3 which
was the first version available on
Windows during the announcement jobs
were in a benchmark comparing the most
popular Windows browsers with Safari
coming out on top this is when Apple
began claiming that Safari was the
world's fastest browser later
third-party tests would confirm apples
claim that Safari 3 was the fastest
browser on the Windows platform but this
was in terms of initial data downloading
over the Internet it was found to be
only a hair faster than Internet
Explorer 7 in Mozilla Firefox when
loading static content from local cache
beginning with Safari 4 the address bar
had been completely revamped
the blue inline progress bar was
replaced with a spinning bezel with a
loading indicator the button to add a
bookmark was attached to the address bar
by default and the reload stop button
was superimposed on the right end of the
address bar all of these changes were
made to streamline the interface and
make Safari appear similar to the mobile
version on the iPhone Safari 4 also
included new features like Cover Flow
for browsing history and bookmarks top
sites with a nice thumbnail view
improved developer tools and a nitro
JavaScript engine that ran JavaScript up
to eight times faster than Internet
Explorer Safari 4 also passed the new
acid3 web standards test Apple released
Safari 5 On June 7 2010 featuring the
new Safari reader for reading articles
on the web without distraction and a 30%
JavaScript performance increase over
Safari for Safari 5 included more than a
dozen new html5 technologies with a
focus on interoperability and for the
first time a developers could create
Safari extensions to customize and
enhance the browsing experience Apple
also decided to reintegrate the progress
bar back into the address bar for this
release and that's something I vividly
remember since I was so happy to have
feature back Safari 6 was initially
planned as a safari 5.2 release until
Apple announced the change to 6 at its
2012 Worldwide Developers Conference the
release of Safari 6 coincided with the
OS 10 mountain lion release on July 25th
2012 and it was directly integrated into
the OS this meant Safari was no longer
available for download from Apple's
website Mac users running OS 10 lion
could upgrade to Safari 6 through a
software update but it wasn't available
for earlier operating systems it also
wasn't available on Windows Apple said
Safari 6 is available for mountain lion
and lion safari 5 continues to be
available for Windows Safari 6 included
some helpful features like iCloud tabs
which synced users open web tabs across
their iOS and OS 10 devices Safari 6
also included new privacy features
including and ask websites not to track
me preference and the ability for
websites to send mountain lion users
notifications Safari 7 was released in
2013 and brought improvements to
JavaScript performance and memory usage
as well as a new look for top sites in
the sidebar there was a new shared links
feature in a new power saver feature
which paused plugins that weren't in use
the next two updates weren't very big
Safari just included WebGL support
stronger privacy features increased
speed and efficiency enhanced iCloud
integration and an updated design and
safari 9 in 2015 featured the ability to
mute and pin tabs but in 2016 Apple made
up for the last two updates with Safari
10 it added a slew of new capabilities
to Safari there was Apple pay
picture-in-picture support for video a
new bookmarks sidebar a redesigned
history and bookmarks view site-specific
zoom where Safari would remember how far
you zoomed in to web sites improved
autofill Reader improvements and the
ability to reopen recently closed tabs
but with all those new features you may
wonder what else Apple could possibly
add in the next version well in Safari
11 Apple added some of my favorite
features first was the end of auto
playing videos Safari would prevent
videos from playing until you actually
click the play button which is how all
videos on the internet should work but
the best edition was intelligent
tracking prevention this prevented
websites from installing tracking
cookies onto your browser and following
you around the Internet the feature was
very difficult to implement and major
advertising groups objected to it saying
the feature would reduce the free
services supported by advertising while
other experts praised the change now
everything we've covered so far is for
the desktop version of Safari but there
are some features in iOS that I want to
go over next starting with iOS 1 Safari
had the unique ability to bookmark links
as web clip icons on the home screen
which acted as shortcuts to certain
websites you could also press on an
image for 3 seconds to save it to your
photo album in iOS 4 the find function
was built right into the search box and
users could print a web page with
AirPrint iOS 5 added true tabbed
browsing similar to the desktop version
but only for iPads something called
reading list was also added which
allowed users to save articles for later
in this list with sync across all the
users devices and reader not to be
confused with a reading list would
organize all the text and images on a
website into a more readable format
while removing all the websites
advertising finally private browsing was
added which prevented cookies or web
history from being saved in iOS 6 iCloud
tabs were added just like in the desktop
version and offline reading lists meant
users could read articles previously
stored without an internet connection
fullscreen landscape view for iPhone and
iPod touch users head most of safaris
controls in order to see more web
content iOS 7 featured a redesigned icon
an interface a 64-bit build on devices
using the a7 processor iCloud keychain
which saved passwords usernames and
credit card numbers a password generator
shared links tracking prevention
parental controls an increase in the
tablet from 9 to 36 and a unified smart
search field in iOS 8 a search function
was added to browse through all open
tabs a new sidebar would slide in to
reveal bookmarks their reading list and
shared links the address bar would
automatically hide while scrolling down
spotlight search was made available for
the address bar a scan credit card
option was offered while entering credit
card information on a website you could
enable private browsing for a specific
tab an option to request the
version of a website was available and
holding the new tab button which show
recently closed tabs iOS 9 added content
blocking extensions to restrict specific
web content Safari viewcontroller
allowed web content to be displayed from
within an app and an improved reader
view allowed users to choose different
fonts and themes while reading an
article iOS 10 increased the tabla Matt
again this time from 36 to 500 and
finally iOS 11 didn't really change much
with Safari but it did feature a rounder
search bar so that is the history of
Safari let me know what features you
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