History of Safari

Safari is Apple’s web browser that was released back in 2003 with Mac OS 10.3 Panther. But you might be wondering, “what web browser did the Mac use before Safari was created?” Well they 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 webpage 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 meant it could take up to 3 minutes to load just one webpage.
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 in much worse financial shape than he expected, discovering they 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 Apple 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 Microsofts image with consumers and could lead to an antitrust lawsuit from the US government. So it was 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 150 million dollar investment in non-voting Apple shares. That meant 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. Fourth, 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 it. But the blow was softened when Jobs clarified that users could change the default browser back to Netscape Navigator which still shipped with every Mac.

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K great vid

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The history of the Apple Store.

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The history of Apple explained explaining Apple explained

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The boo when internet explorer was announced had me laughing

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Hyper Swag it stinks 😷

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[@graalera3365]

The Samsung web browser is better than Apple browser it's more good for find things on the internet.

[@westtell4]

People booing this when this was literally the only way they could save the company. There wouldn't be an apple today of jobs and gates hadn't made that deal

[@westtell4]

The company was literally weeks from bankruptcy

[@King.K.O]

10:02 that dude .., the way he claps ;x

[@supersaiyanafify]

Desperate problem requires desperate solution

[@craftxeni]

With his arm lol

[@madingwang7778]

That’s how I clap in school when I’m lazy

[@ryancoen]

3:13 iOS 10?

[@dhsghdhsbd]

Ryan Coen oopsies

[@ryancoen]

Korfocat . I also always get the two mixed up haha

[@RafaelRiversActor]

Ryan Coen Maybe Mac os 10?

[@Edwin-km4xk]

He meant OS X 10 beta

[@aaronlockett3873]

I stopped to look for this comment

[@zollotech]

Great videos. Well researched and good history lessons.

[@sfsgameplay800]

*good history lessons* On KZbin

[@litdragon4241]

🎮

[@bletwort2920]

Is this supposed to be sarcasm? He just reads word for word the Safari article on Wikipedia. Even school kids are expected to do so much as not copy an entire Wikipedia article without at least paraphrasing a bit.

[@anarchistmaverick9507]

avwv is he supposed to pull these informations from his ass?

[@JSTPPodcast]

Ya, if only history classes taught us history

[@lagercat5916]

So apple saved Microsoft and Microsoft saved apple, and made the world as a hole a bit better The more you knoww

[@discordping5072]

Cooperation is key, you will fall without friends.

[@GamingGardevoir]

@@vek7933 yes, it’s a donut hole

[@amaansamed2466]

Thank you for always doing the polls I appreciate that you genuinely think about your subscribers 😊

[@gilat6]

There was also a web browser called Camino (only for Mac) before Safari, most Mac users used that.

[@ROMANRELOAD]

currently watching an apple explained marathon :))

[@Hauchoi322]

I got the safari 2013

[@milocks1630]

I like how the safari logo got oversimplified then overcomplicated a little bit

[@Lawls]

History of Safari (according to Wikipedia), literally almost word for word what's written on wikipedia.

[@Alecexo]

Hey, gotta make money somehow 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@kaideumers6102]

Nothing new, this channel is wikipedia with videos and pictures so you don’t have to read i guess

[@scottlowell493]

@@Alecexo There are a lot of hack videos like that. No need for the maker to research, just read the wiki article.

[@hey_bucklebob]

In his defence, he had to find all the videos that he included.

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@@hey_bucklebob mK

[@DiamondProAlpine]

"apple released the beta for iOS 10 that day" wow i never knew iOS 10 was that old

[@kirbysucks5001]

@Sahon Sarma r/whoosh

[@theharbingerofconflation]

KHTML comes from the KDE Desktop environment and was used in Konqueror, KDEs own browser. Konqueror had the added benefit of being a fully capable file manager and FTP-browser along with the web. Back before I moved on to Apple I swore that KHTML was the best web-rendering engine out there. However my technical understanding of what it actually did was limited as I was 14. Today I miss the capability to switch between file previews and the web in tabs and basically rarely having to leave the main program.

[@kuyans3889]

Ah yes I remember the launch of the iOS 10 beta so many years ago.

[@timanddan2259]

Ur a legend if you remember the “OG” safari symbol

[@bskull3232]

Both Safari and Edge are good browsers. They download Chrome quickly.

[@Alecexo]

Bo Gao I was about to say..

[@kelvodcardo]

Chrome may be better than Edge on Windows, but better than Safari on MacOS? With all the integration and the Apple ecosystem? Never.

[@bskull3232]

Chrome is way better than Safari, if you use Windows as a main OS. It roams all settings and data across Windows and macOS. Try Safari with that!

[@SK91NO]

Someone you Probably Don't Know But you have to download Chrome

[@XeonGame]

M E N T A L I N S T A B I L I T Y honestly I like Firefox more. Chrome sells your data.

[@adam.c0des484]

Love the videos they’re informational and fun to watch very enjoyable. Sub well earned

[@XMattingly]

Most people have _no idea_ how influential Apple has been to web standards. Right now, *about 95% of all web traffic* is occurs with browsers with a variant of the WebKit engine.

[@lelouchvibritannia1410]

IDK about the history of safari But I know for sure that safari is history😂😂

[@cg19]

2:32 LOL

[@GlenTindal]

The next feature for Safari: "Siri integration"

[@evaalmazan3027]

I didnt notice safari in my iPad until I became an Apple fan

[@embersatdusk]

3:55 what scares me is that on my new Note 9, both Chrome and Samsung Internet show that image slightly wrong...

[@SharpMaxwell]

That’s the point

[@discordping5072]

Honestly, my old devices does that.

[@VieleGuteFahrer]

Works perfectly fine on my iPad Mini 4 if I don't use Split View.

[@BenJ.G]

Hoping for some big Safari updates to catch up with Chrome and Firefox especially this year 🤞🏼

[@certifiedpeedealer4933]

Ben Gareffa MacOS mojave will have it.

[@moozdoomz7573]

Just use firefox

[@Clinohumite]

iPadOS made it better

[@orca427gd9]

Woo! Great Video! Can you try doing history of the iPod? (Because it’s dying, meaning that the video won’t have to be updated) And after WWDC, try doing the iPad!

[@TheJuly48]

And who of the people watching this is actually using Safari??

[@bibasik7]

Me!

[@josecarlosxyz]

me, on Apple device you don't have point using another browser. only hipsters does.

[@youfoundaesthetic4879]

Like anyone cares what you’re using smh

[@gallardogd560]

I am

[@AyyTeeG]

I'm using Microsoft edge

[@helmisumarno]

I LOVED cover flow on Safari back then. Scrolling the history list was like going through time machine lol

[@visualaudio22]

You just earned another subscriber! I don't even use apple products but love watching your videos! Keep up the GREAT WORK!!!!

[@itz_kiera6018]

I remember the 2007 Safari OMG so many memories

[@LostieTrekieTechie]

IE for Mac and Safari for Windows were interesting times.

[@Jeromeromesheltonrecordspolice]

That was very informative ur series are great I love you a lot I didn’t know and that the Mac had explorer on it

[@zircoben]

Man, Mountain Lion was the most gorgeous version of macOS ever developed.

[@isaacsac5]

I think you said iOS 10 by mistake.

[@kebbinator]

Right; but it's Mac OS X/10, not iOS

[@Frezzzz]

Safari is honestly underrated for mobile devices just needs a few tweaks.

[@paulb2092]

I remember that a lot of us Mac users were using Explorer for Mac before the Apple/Microsoft agreement.

[@rooneye]

lol I remember that keynote speech from 2008 when Safari was touted as being way faster than Chrome and the rest. They couldn't even try and say that today lol

[@MokePops]

I love Safari so much. Best browser ever

[@etizoman2403]

Moke Only thing I wish they would let us do is just download files and see them in the files app ):

[@tacticalidiot175]

Sigh... you are really missing out if you like safari

[@kathens7755]

@@tacticalidiot175 missing out on what? I'm doing fine with it

[@criticalz4288]

chrome is so much better...

[@criticalz4288]

Greedo it's alright. Chrome is way better - it's faster and has a better UI. The only thing safari has better is its good support for imac, for example using touch ID to pay for online things, but that's pretty much it

[@ProshipAshton]

5:51 I really miss that.

[@deadchannel447]

This is awesome

[@jahjoeka]

Are the cops watching me?!

[@wesosdequeso8360]

Didn't knew that Java was involved too. Great video.

[@rrrglynn]

Safari is the best web browser! How do you do the picture in picture video on the Mac? I didn't know you could do that.

[@enzmondo]

History of App Store please!!! :)))

[@toma1610]

It‘s something paradojical. Being APPLE, Safari is like the last browser to supports new features in HTML5, while other browsers do it earlier. Safari delays to get the support for CSS new features, but Opera, Firefox, Chrome, even Edge are supporting since long time ago. Why Safari is back always in this issue? It‘s like the “Internet Explorer” of the 2020 decade. As a web developer I have to code something specifically for Safari that shares 8% of the browsers, unless I use jQuery which I am trying to avoid.

[@GoPowerSports]

As of now it will no longer work on a windows platform for any site that has ssl certificates. Apple apparently has no plans of updating it to work on a pc.

[@dbloyd2]

At the time with the announcement of IE on the Mac, I preferred it over Netscape. Thought it was a nicer IE than Windows ever had.

[@Cuday]

After this video, I downloaded Safari for Windows and tried it out xD

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Cuday how has that gone for you.

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?

[@Cuday]

Not good!

[@vincewong8173]

nice to see Scott Forstall, missed him.

[@BuzzyTheBee]

They brought back the 2013 edition back

[@jun_suzuki42]

I missed using Safari on Windows ;-; Because i have been using it since young, and although available on my iOS and iPadOS, I still need one on my Windows.

[@lins_z2]

I never could get used to Safari on my MacBook so I use Chrome, but I do like Safari on my iPhone more than other navigators

[@cirkulx]

First beta of Safari version for iOS 10 that day-? Safari was released in 2003! Am I missing something? iPhoneOS (iOS before the introduction of the iPad in 2010) 1.0 was released in 2007, let alone iOS 10!

[@LEGOGames1000YT]

3:12 It's OS X (currently macOS). iOS hadn't been created yet. Even the iPod still had its own OS!

[@tubularap]

The browser wars of the 90s ... terrible. I was in the midst of it, trying to make websites work on Navigator AND Explorer. Almost impossible, and quite an achievement when you succeeded.

[@michael1234252]

Just hearing about the acid test on IE just make me understand why it's been getting allot of the memes about it being slow. Even though I'm a Windows user primarily I haven't used Microsoft's Edge or Microsoft's IE that much for a majority of my internet usage since I started using Chrome back in 2009.

[@josecarlosxyz]

Safari running on Mac hardware and OS is unbeatable.

[@varniitprofessional]

What features Safari browser added, are still not available in most browsers especially on the Windows and chromium browsers side. I was recommending some to Vivaldi and Opera few weeks and months ago respectively and got a good hearing and criticism of what I'm expecting them to provide to me. I said a browser equivalent to Safari. They rejected my features and bugs reported. No wonder why both are having less than 5% share in user market. And both companies aren't creating anything new but living on chrome, chromium and their engineers work. But I'm happy with brave, edge and chrome. Edge is literally hitting the ball out the stadium with features like TTS read aloud and immersive reader even on PDF files.

[@stevenhe3462]

The history of Safari is closely related to its engine "Webkit." It sort of branched from a program from GNU and sort of went to Chrome's engine. That is much more technical than this what this video covers, though.

[@theveec]

Nice 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@davidmaglioli7048]

Thats fascinating, I never knew Microsoft and Apple had that partnership. In hindsight Microsoft saving Apple ended up hurting Microsoft in the end, As far as consumer electronics goes, Microsoft couldn't compete with the iPod, they lost out to iOS in the phone race, and up until recently Windows PCs could never quite match the premium feel of a Macbook or iMac. Had Microsoft left Apple to die, we may be using Windows phones now instead of iPhone, and it might be Android vs Windows instead Android vs iOS. Android may not even exist as we know it today. Given how long it took Microsoft to enter the mobile market Google may have wanted a full desktop OS to compete with Windows rather than a mobile OS. Without the revolution that was the iPhone, there may not have been a need for a mobile OS like Android.

[@taborit]

Thank you!And this video it turned out very well

[@hazeldejesus]

This is embarrassing, but this video just taught me that safari on iOS has a recently closed tabs feature...I've lost so many tabs because I didn't know it had that!!

[@elektrokinesis4150]

omg those old apple.com screenshots

[@Oscar-FN]

You have just got a new subscriber

[@Lewis.George]

I really don't mind Safari on MacOS these days, it is definitely better and cleaner than it was a few years back.

[@truongnguyennhat8983]

To be honest, when using Mac or iPhone, I'm only using Safari, but not in another OS. Safari works beautifully on both Mac and iOS.

[@Su.darshan]

Wanna know a developer secret? Chrome on iOS and macOS is build with WebKit engine. The same engine that Safari, Chrome, and Apps uses.

[@johann5022]

Very well done!

[@raine6813]

thumbnail: "please dont turn me into an oversimplified logo!"

[@dhsghdhsbd]

Refresh Squad

[@TheSerpentDK]

I remember Netscape, but on Windows

[@JonathonV]

Joshua Christensen Remember the famed mint green default webpage background colour? I always wondered why they chose that. 😄 I actually used Netscape as my main browser for years; I particularly liked the UI of Netscape 7. Eventually the Mozilla project led to Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox having the same engine but more UI features, so uninstalled Netscape. I was a Web designer back then. Soon I fell in love with Opera (especially once it cut the ads), and it was so intuitive and Web-developer friendly that I kept it as my main browser for years, until the disastrous Opera 15 was released, which saw the Opera team cutting the Presto engine and literally all my favourite UI features (tab stacking, mouse gestures, etc.) to make Opera just another WebKit browser. After that it mattered much less because I had a career change.

[@jasonknight1085]

"features for next version" -- how about it catches up to Blink on standards compliance... oh, that's right, when Google forked off blink from webkit they absconded with all the actual talent that Apple had been doing everything they could to piss off. ... which is why Safari is now rotting on the vine, with many developers calling it "the new IE6"

[@kamilkulinski1670]

IT IS the new IE6 - safari is lame as the IE10 or IE11. Big FU to safari... especially on iOS... btw Firefox on OSX is no better...

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Great history lesson there. I am surprised that they are toting their so called private browsing features. Shouldn't those have been standard from the start? I mean, that's one of the problems with the internet is all the darn ads. I've been using ad blockers for years and thankful for their developers work.

[@riverdaletales8457]

No the technology was not there yet

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Riverdale tales Explain further please?

[@riverdaletales8457]

@@WarriorsPhoto private browsing wasn't a standard because the technology was not understood at the time so that's why it wasn't a "standard"

[@WarriorsPhoto]

Riverdale tales Ahh. Okay.

[@txshizplays_]

I still have the safari from 2013

[@jjb0894]

My favorite browser is Safari. I use Chrome on Windows only because there isn’t a windows version of Safari anymore.

[@theformer1337agent]

tbh idc of what browser i use, as long as its a browser, i use it (except ie cuz that sucks)

[@nmgamerzr]

ii miss safari since 2013 i used it many times

[@Meatnyancat22Gaming]

Amazing video, learned a lot I would've had no idea about

[@hodaabdel4928]

Amazing video.

[@HoLDoN4Sec]

imagine the Apple - Microsoft settlement if it had happened within 5 years before the iPhone came out, that would have had completely changed our present as we know it today

[@brodderick]

The mechanism netscape used is called Lazy Loading

[@samadhanfuke4870]

Great Content ! Keep it up

[@APrintmaker]

As of late Sep 2019 (Safari 13.0) it now supports WebAuthn and Fido2, before this I had to load Chrome to use 2FA with YubiKey.

[@civicsr2cool]

How come the iPhones safari browser fails the acid2 and acid 3 test thing?

[@bruh12458]

if edge and safari have one thing in common its that there the best chrome downloader

[@VoidPaul97]

The best browser there is. With macOS 14 is becoming even better.

[@Pizza-kp4lt]

I got a Samsung ad Before this.

[@TG_1023]

3:13 iOS 10 came out around 12 years after that

[@gavinhamrick1660]

3:44 In the background it says”For every student that buys a MacBook, they got a FREE iPod Nano.”

[@Ha1frican]

On my iPhone I’ve switched back to pretty much every Apple stock app (Maps, Mail, Notes etc) over time just bc it’s largely easier to use but I will NEVER switch back to Safari from Chrome

[@certifiedpeedealer4933]

I remember safari for windows, it was neato.

[@petertalks301]

Coooool 🖥

[@teia3806]

I could've sworn the Safari logo looks like the first one right now.

[@stoplightgaming2302]

next Safari logo:- blue circle with a red square

[@caleb1016]

The iPad/iPhones currently use it now (7th of jan, 2019)

[@osheen7337]

No shit

[@AuroraNemoia]

It took them that long to add "Reopen closed tab"!?!?! are you actually kidding me?

[@allens7476]

Beware before updating(?) to Safari 12.0. Apple said it was improved security, but it erased my AdblockPro and disabled my virus scan. What improvement?

[@LilJBoi2]

iOS 10 added split view in safari to browse to websites simultaneously on the same display real estate...if that makes sense

[@Yazennnnnn]

The only thing I want from safari rn is the ability to play 1440p video

[@unexpectedzfrench2918]

safari on iPhone,iPad touch and Mac OS