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Apple's Safari goes on the Browser War hunt
By Michael Flaminio, Insanely Great Mac
January 7th 2003
Apple announced a new Web browser offering speed, speed and more speed... and some
features
Last summer Apple hired David Hyatt, lead programmer for Chimera. Rumors start to
swirl about what Apple was planning, and this week at Macworld Expo we now know it's
Safari, a new Web browser. At his keynote presentation Tuesday, Apple CEO Steve Jobs
stressed the speed of Safari, specifically over Microsoft's Internet Explorer as a
major feature.
"Safari is the fastest browser on the Mac, and we predict that many will feel it is
the best browser ever created," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "We are bringing
innovation back into this category with the first all new browser created in many
years."
Safari is currently in public beta, and can be downloaded for free. Major features
include integrated Google searching, "SnapBack," a way to jump to the top level of a
current web site (for example, after reading this story you can "snap back" to our
home page, even if you clicked through multiple articles), an iTunes like bookmarking
library and automatic pop-up ad blocking. Other features include integration with the
Address Book for contact URLs, support for HTML, XHTML 1.0, DOM, CSS, SSL,JavaScript
and Netscape style plug-ins like QuickTime(R) with MPEG-4, Flash, Shockwave and Real.
And finally, Safari's rendering engine is based on KHTML, a popular open source
project.
Analysis:
The question may be where Apple is going with Safari? Is it just reinventing the wheel
or is there a larger plan in the works? Trying out Safari, it seems to run fairly
well, and while IGM's pages render correctly, I get file not found errors when hitting
the Back button, and some other odd errors. Although turning on pop-up blocking seemed
to have fixed the problem.
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