Safari 5

It renders web pages at lightning speed. It works on iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac and PC. It shows you your favourite sites at a glance. And it’s so smart, it even checks your spelling and grammar. Meet Safari, a browser unlike any you’ve ever seen.

Elegant Design Enjoy the content you’re browsing, distraction free. Innovation at Work Safari does things that no browser has ever done before. Web Standards Blazing speed. Open standards. One powerful web engine. Security Browse worry free, your privacy protected, your security assured.

A more elegant browser. By design.

Before Safari, browsers were an afterthought. Something you put up with if you wanted to surf the Internet. One browser looked and felt just like another, so you chose the one that worked the best and crashed the least. They were ugly, cluttered affairs, whose interfaces competed for your attention and made browsing — the very purpose for which they were created — more difficult. Safari changes all that.

  • Located at the top of the browser window, tabs are easy to create and manage in Safari 4.
  • Thanks to its iTunes-like interface, Safari makes it easy to view, create, and organise bookmarks.
  • Smart Search presents suggestions from Google Suggest and your recent searches.
  • Full-Page Zoom gives you a closer look at even the smallest print on web pages. And it scales images perfectly.

Safari is designed to emphasise the browsing, not the browser. The browser frame is a single pixel wide. You see a scroll bar only when needed. And if you choose, you can hide almost the entire interface, removing virtually every distraction from the browser window. A great browser should get out of your way and let you simply enjoy the web. Safari does just that. And it does it regardless of platform.

The first browser to deliver the “real” Internet to a mobile device, Safari renders pages on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch just as you see them on your computer. But this is more than just a scaled-down mobile version of the original. It takes advantage of the technologies built into these Multi-Touch devices. The page shifts and reformats to fill the window when you turn your device on its side. You zoom in just by pinching and extending your fingers. Of course, no matter how you access it, Safari is always blazing fast and easy to use.

Innovation. In plain sight.

The best way to read on the web.
Safari Reader instantly banishes those blinking and flashing ads that distract you from your online articles. Say you’re browsing your favourite news site. Safari can tell if you’re on a web page with an article. Simply click the Reader icon in the Smart Address Field, and the article — every page of it — instantly appears in a continuous, clutter-free view. Email, print or zoom with a click using convenient onscreen controls. And if you change the size of the text, Safari remembers it the next time you view an article in Safari Reader.

  • See your favourite websites — at a glance — in Top Sites.
  • You’ll recognise the bookmarked site you want to open on sight thanks to Cover Flow.
  • Full History Search teams powerful search with Cover Flow to make it easier to find sites you visited in the past.
  • Safari checks your spelling and grammar as you type email responses or blog entries.

See your sites at a glance.
Like everyone, you have your favourite websites. The problem is that you have to click through them one by one. But not anymore. With Top Sites, Safari keeps a running tally of the websites you visit and automatically creates a graphically rich page that displays up to 24 thumbnails of your favourites. That makes it easy to spot the site you want to visit, and to open it with a click.

Flip through pages.
Doing things no browser has done before, Safari also makes it a lot easier to find sites you’ve visited in the past — but can’t quite remember. Since it stores all the text of every page you visit, Safari can instantly find sites from even the sketchiest search terms. Then it does something really unique. Rather than present a static list of URLs and force you to click repeatedly until you find the right site, Safari shows you every site it’s found in Cover Flow. You flip through the sites, just as you do album art in iTunes. And when you click a web page in Cover Flow, it’s because you’ve already recognised it as the site you were looking for.

Safari turns the same Cover Flow trick with your bookmarked sites. As you flip through your bookmarks, Safari lets you see the sites just as they appeared when you last visited them. Spot the right preview and, with a click, Safari takes you there instantly.

Technology that Invites Innovation

The world’s fastest browser, Safari has speed to burn. Why should you wait for pages to load? You want to see those search results, get the latest news, check current stock prices, right now. And Safari delivers, letting you wait less and browse more.

Safari is leading the way to a standards-based Internet. Standards matter. Before standards, every browser had its own play book. With standards, every browser’s on the same page. Great for developers, standards let them create sites that work on all browsers out of the box. Great for the browsing public, they ensure that you enjoy a great experience on every site you visit. And these technologies are free for anyone to use.

That’s why Apple has adopted and has taken an active role in defining standards, such as HTML5 and CSS3, that ensure consistency and push the boundaries of what’s possible on the web. Advancements in web standards mean that leading-edge Internet experiences — rich media and interactive graphics, for example — are available to everyone.

Safari was the first browser to support HTML5 audio and video tags. They allow developers to integrate media directly into standard web pages, reducing development time and leading to faster response for you. Full-screen and closed-caption support for HTML5 video lets developers deliver a richer and more accessible video experience. With geolocation support, websites can customise content for users who choose to share their location. And by supporting HTML5 offline technologies, Safari allows web-based applications to store information on your hard drive, so you can use them even without an Internet connection.

Safari was also the first browser to support CSS3 Animations, which bring a new level of interactivity to the web, and CSS Effects, which let developers add polish to websites by stylising images and photos with eye-catching gradients, precise masks, and stunning reflections.

Apple has also consistently demonstrated its leadership in supporting the latest standards by passing both Acid 2 and Acid 3 before any other browser. Designed by the Web Standards Project, Acid tests confirm a browser’s ability to handle the latest web standards.

View demos that illustrate the capabilities of HTML5 and web standards

Safari Developer icon

Innovation starts with WebKit, the technology at the heart of Safari. Powering Safari on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch and Safari on the Mac and PC, WebKit displays graphics, renders fonts, determines page layout, and supports the interactivity of the sites you visit on a daily basis.

Introduced by Apple engineers, WebKit simplifies web development and accelerates innovation. An open source engine, WebKit is free for anyone to use. In fact, right now an entire community of engineers is refining and streamlining the code to be faster and more reliable — all in the interest of making the web a better place. That’s teamwork on a very large scale, and the web is a better place for it.

Now used in more than 100 desktop and mobile products, WebKit has been adopted for use in Google Chrome and AOL Desktop for Mac. It’s used as the web rendering engine in Steam, Adobe Dreamweaver, and Microsoft Entourage. And it’s become the new standard for mobile browsers. WebKit powers Google Android, Nokia Series 60 and the Palm WebOS. On over 500 million devices, WebKit is pushing the possibilities of the modern web.

The browser that looks out for you.

Yes, the web can be a scary place. But when you use Safari, you can surf worry free. To keep your browsing your business, Safari offers Private Browsing. Simply turn it on, and Safari stops recording the sites you visit and the software or documents you download. It also stops storing your searches, cookies and the data in online forms you fill out. So feel free to shop online or check your bank account from a shared or public computer.

To prevent companies from tracking the cookies generated by the websites you visit, Safari blocks them by default. Then it automatically erases cookie trails and accepts cookies only from your current domain. It also provides built-in pop-up blocking, so you don’t have to be bothered by unwanted ads. Read more about privacy protection on the Safari Features page.

Apple engineers designed Safari to be highly secure from day one. And they continue to build improvements into Safari with each new release. For example, Safari offers protection from cross-site scripting — a type of attack sometimes used to steal personal data. Antiphishing and malware technology is built in, so if you visit a site that might contain phishing or malware content, it alerts you and won’t open the page. Thanks to EV (Extended Validation) Certificate support, Safari highlights legitimate websites and businesses, letting you feel confident about purchasing items or sharing personal information online.

Safari also provides secure encryption technologies to prevent eavesdropping, forgery and digital tampering while you browse the Internet. It offers standards-based authentication for logging into secure websites, and it supports the most popular proxy protocols. Browsing on a Mac? With Safe Downloads, Safari tags each download with information about when and where you downloaded it and reminds you where it came from the first time you open it. To keep your browser up to date and secure, Safari also provides easy access to the latest security updates via Apple Software Update. To learn more about security in Safari, visit the Safari Features page.