Safari (web Browser) - Features

Features

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)
  • Pop-up 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.

Until Safari 6.0, it included a built-in web feed aggregator that supported the RSS and Atom standards. Current features include Private Browsing (a mode in which no record of information about the user's web activity is retained by the browser), a "Ask websites not to track me" privacy setting, the ability to archive web content in WebArchive format, the ability to e-mail complete web pages directly from a browser menu, the ability to search bookmarks, and the ability to share tabs between all Macs and iOS devices running appropriate versions of software via an iCloud account.

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