Swift: Safari on Windows
August 11th, 2006
Three months ago I posted some links to services which allowed you to test your website in Safari. Most people use Windows these days, and KHTML/Webkit is the only major browser not available on Windows.
Click the image for a full screenshot.
WebKit has since been ported to Windows and there is now a browser called Swift which implements it. It’s at version 0.1 alpha stage and the browser itself is pretty rough - it crashed on me several times, a lot of stuff doesn’t work, etc. Additionally, the mousewheel and right-click doesn’t work.
It probably won’t look exactly the same on a Mac because of things like fonts and screen differences, but it’s a pretty good way of making sure your site and Javascript works with the WebKit engine without having to fork out a few hundred dollars for the Mac Mini.
(Oh, install it for all users on the system, not "just me" or it won’t work)
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I downloaded it earlier this week. Pretty nice but it’s extremely buggy and it can’t seem to browse local files (via direct address bar input).
Good idea none the less.
Suppose it saves forking out for the "world’s most expensive dongle" i.e. a Mac!! lol