WebKit on a PC
There’s been whispers about this for a while, but it looks like some people actually got their act together and decided to go for it. Now, you can get a WebKit-based browser for the PC: GetWebKit.
The browser’s actual name is Swift, and is based off of Apple’s WebKit (the same technology behind Safari). I haven’t had a chance to play around with it yet, and apparently there are some quirks, but at least it’s a nice step in the right direction.
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I saw that last night when I was playing around at the WebKit Wiki. My first thought was "cool". My second thought was "I spent $700 on a computer I don’t need?".
I guess I can justify it as Safari isn’t WebKit and visa-versa; although I find myself testing more in WebKit than I do Safari.
Jeremy on August 8th, 2006 at 5:10 pm
You didn’t waste your money, because they do render slightly differently (from what people have told me), so I don’t think you can just test in Swift and assume that it works the same as Safari. The big win, I think, is that you can test your JavaScript in Swift and be reasonably sure that if it works there, it will work in Safari.
Nicholas C. Zakas on August 8th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
Aye, that’s true. There’s really no substitute for the real thing. I guess I find myself in WebKit more often for the XPath and XSLT support, as that’s what I’m primarily focusing on at this time. For all other things, I’ll fire up Safari.
Jeremy on August 8th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
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