Safari/Webkit for Windows

Posted by Anders Vindberg in Lunarmedia Blog on the 23 May. 2007 (40,562 views).

Are you in the need of testing your website in Safari (the WebKit layout engine), and sitting on windows machine, then look no further. First install the Apollo Runtime, and then grab the Apollo application called Scout, a small simplified browser that uses the WebKit layout engine. According to Adobe's FAQ, it uses the same layout engine as Safari on Mac OS X and KHTML Browser. For completeness, it should be noted that an early implementation of WebKit for windows called the Swift browser is no longer being developed on. Also, I have encountered a small layout divergence from Scout and older versions of Safari, so be aware of that.

Looking for a CSS Safari Hack (this in particular) I can inform this also works with Scout.

It seems that, as a web-developer, we need to compatibility-test with four chief engines:

  • Trident - Internet Explorer
  • Gecko - Mozilla Firefox
  • WebKit - Safari/Apollo
  • Presto - Opera

At least running on a windows machine we can now test each rendering engine in one go.

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Florian said May 23, 2007 09:32 AM

You know that's perfectly useless. Why? Well on windoze apollo attempts to store temporary files in documents&settings of the user. Only, it doesn't handle foldernames with latin-1 characters in them or something, because it fails to locate files it would need to launch.

So long apollo, just another heap of crapware.

Anders Vindberg said May 24, 2007 06:29 AM

I see your point, maybe I should have mentioned that the Apollo Runtime is still in Alpha release, this app may crash from time to time. However, the essence of this topic remains - Apollo is (unintentionally) helping Windows users test websites with the WebKit layout engine - no need for vmware or a MAC :)