Safari, the quintessential browser on Mac, celebrates thirteen years since its introduction in 2003

It has been no more and no less than thirteen years since Steve Jobs presented at MacWorld in San Francisco back in 2003, the default browser that would accompany the OS X operating system during successive versions of it. We are effectively talking about Safari, the well-known browser that the vast majority of Mac users use for versatility, integration of multi-touch gestures, speed and that even with its flaws, I still think that it is the most balanced alternative always speaking within OS X.

The appearance of Safari possibly came late to have been a reference in the history of the development of the HTML standard, where however Microsoft and the now defunct Netscape which would later give rise to Firefox, if they made their mark much earlier.

Anyway, according to Jobs himself during the presentation, he said that Safari would be the first all-in-one browser most innovative in years. He was partly right as a unique engine called WebCore (based on KHTML, an open source project) was developed that would compete with Microsoft's Trident and Mozilla's Gecko.

This meant that Apple was betting on open web standards instead of private extensions that Microsoft supported, that is, Apple created a platform with which to work much more stable for web developers and with this they achieved that in 2008, Safari became the first browser with a WebKit engine that passed fully Acid3 test which checked the browser's compatibility with all web standards.

Also at the time also supported HTML5 as a standard as opposed to Adobe Flash when other competitors did not contemplate this option and which years later has turned out to be a safe bet.

On the other hand in 2007, Apple released the original iPhone and using the same WebKit engine (created based on WebCore and JavaScript Core to develop an engine that was a complete package that any provider could use), I created a multi-touch interface to give the user the best possible user experience. Definitely, Safari is a browser that it has evolved quite well and that it is still competitive compared to other alternatives, although it is not currently the most cutting-edge.