WebKit for Windows
Wednesday, 9. August 2006, 12:33:48
WebKit, the browser rendering engine derived from KHTML by Apple and until now only available to Mac OS X users in Safari, is now available as an alpha download from [url]http://www.getwebkit.org/.
This new browser is called Swift. It's extremely new, crashes regularly, and still has quite a bit of missing functionality
You must have Windows Installer 3.1 or later (which you will have if you've been keeping your Windows up-to-date via Microsoft Updates), and you'll probably need vcredist_x86.exe too. If you get registration or DLL related errors installing, that means you!
Until now, the only way most web developers could test their sites with WebKit was via screen-capture web sites, or web sites that sold VNC time on an actual Mac computer (VNC allowing remote access to that computer). Illegal options included installing OS X on PearPC, or 'finding' yourself a copy of the x86 OS X.
Hopefully, in a few months Swift will become a very usable extra test tool for web developers. The last big hole in Windows web developers test suite is now filled!
This new browser is called Swift. It's extremely new, crashes regularly, and still has quite a bit of missing functionality
You must have Windows Installer 3.1 or later (which you will have if you've been keeping your Windows up-to-date via Microsoft Updates), and you'll probably need vcredist_x86.exe too. If you get registration or DLL related errors installing, that means you!
Until now, the only way most web developers could test their sites with WebKit was via screen-capture web sites, or web sites that sold VNC time on an actual Mac computer (VNC allowing remote access to that computer). Illegal options included installing OS X on PearPC, or 'finding' yourself a copy of the x86 OS X.
Hopefully, in a few months Swift will become a very usable extra test tool for web developers. The last big hole in Windows web developers test suite is now filled!
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