WebKit for Windows

August 8th, 2006 by Peter Gasston 3 comments, leave your own »

Windows users who want to see what Safari is all about will be interested to know that a new browser (provisionally called Swift) is in development, which uses the WebKit browsing engine for the first time on Windows. You can download a preview of Swift here; be warned, it is a very early release and so may be buggy. I installed it on my dev PC and it seems to be stable, however.

The WebKit engine is lightning fast at rendering pages, but it does still have a number of quirks when implementing some CSS3 Selectors. If you’re not worried about using development software, download Swift and play with it a little.

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August 8th, 2006 by Peter Gasston in Browsers. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Comments to “WebKit for Windows”

  1. Alexandre Roberto Pereira Says:
    August 8th, 2006 at 1:57 pm

    That’s awesome! I gonna try right away!

  2. Joost de Valk Says:
    August 9th, 2006 at 7:48 am

    This comment was made using Swift :). The lead developer just joined the others on #webkit, i’ very curious as to where this is all going.

  3. Jan Says:
    August 18th, 2006 at 1:58 pm

    Konqueror might also be ported to Windows.

    It beleive KDE also used to run under cygwin, so it should be possible, to run konqueror (khtml, source of webkit), on windows.

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