Apple introduced the Safari web browser in 2003.
Apple announced Safari on January 7, 2003, at Macworld San Francisco and released a beta for Mac OS X the same day. Steve Jobs presented it as a fast browser built specifically for the Mac, at a time when Microsoft Internet Explorer was Apple’s default browser through an agreement between the companies.
Safari was based on WebKit, Apple’s browser framework derived from the KHTML rendering engine and the KJS JavaScript engine developed by the KDE project. Safari 1.0 reached stable release on June 23, 2003. Later that year, it became the default browser in Mac OS X Panther, replacing Internet Explorer as the standard browsing experience on new Mac installations.
The company later adapted Safari for the iPhone, released in 2007, and for iPad and other Apple platforms. It also briefly offered Safari for Windows, beginning in 2007, but discontinued that version after limited adoption. Netscape, Mozilla, and Google are common mix-ups because each also developed influential browsers, but none introduced Safari.