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rorythedog
08-21-2006, 05:06 PM
It's called Swift and it's still in alpha but you can get it here (http://www.getswift.org/).
idefiXX
08-21-2006, 05:09 PM
Cool ! I will try it out soon...
EDIT : Uhmm, guess it still needs alot of development ;) But well, it's an alpha release. Good idea though...
EDIT 2 : Could be my default browser though, if it works properly one day...The WebKit architecture is quite good, isn't it ?
Rex_Mundi_Incarnit
08-21-2006, 05:24 PM
It's called Swift and it's still in alpha but you can get it here (http://www.getswift.org/).

Is it better than FF?



Sorry had to ask! :cool:
MadRocketeer
08-21-2006, 05:49 PM
You know, I've always wanted to try Safari, but could never bring myself to switching to Mac just to do that.

Interesting. Added to my Zombified Bookmarks. Won't be downloading it until at least a beta, and even then I would probably need a lot of alcohol. I am terrified of alphas, betas, previews and pre-release builds.
rorythedog
08-21-2006, 06:09 PM
Is it better than FF?



Sorry had to ask! :cool:

I know you know that's not possible.
Toe
08-21-2006, 06:38 PM
KHTML/WebKit better than Gecko? No, but it ain't bad. As a renderer I'd say it's comparable to Opera.

Nice to finally have a variant of it available for Windows, though. Now I can finally test webpages on it.
acushla
08-21-2006, 06:45 PM
You know, I've always wanted to try Safari, but could never bring myself to switching to Mac just to do that.

Interesting. Added to my Zombified Bookmarks. Won't be downloading it until at least a beta, and even then I would probably need a lot of alcohol. I am terrified of alphas, betas, previews and pre-release builds.With perhaps one or two exceptions I agree with your overall assessment.

99 out of a 100 times there is nothing to be gained (and a lot to be lost...if only time) by not waiting for a stable release.
Tokelil
08-21-2006, 09:58 PM
Nice to finally have a variant of it available for Windows, though. Now I can finally test webpages on it.Yer I will properly install it to test my homepages with as well, so good to see it on Windows.
Willow of Oz
08-21-2006, 10:58 PM
With perhaps one or two exceptions I agree with your overall assessment.

99 out of a 100 times there is nothing to be gained (and a lot to be lost...if only time) by not waiting for a stable release.

qmp is one in a hundred, eh? :silly:
Roj
08-21-2006, 11:17 PM
It's called Swift and it's still in alpha but you can get it here (http://www.getswift.org/).
Tried it on the Mac - it sucked there.
rorythedog
08-21-2006, 11:27 PM
Tried it on the Mac - it sucked there.

It sucks on XP too. I like consistency.
Toe
08-22-2006, 04:43 AM
It's worth noting for anyone who doesn't realize that this is *not* 'Safari for Windows'. In fact, supposedly Apple had promised Microsoft that they wouldn't do that, and in exchange Microsoft discontinued IE for Mac.

Rather, this is a new browser being built on a port of Apple's WebKit to windows. WebKit is the HTML renderer used by Safari, and is itself a Mac port of the KHTML rendering engine, originating in the Konqueror web browser for KDE on Linux (and other OS's that KDE runs on).

Anyway, I tried installing this thing on my compy, and it couldn't register a dll. I couldn't even get it to register the dll manually. Looks like I won't be running this anytime soon. :confused:
biggman15
08-22-2006, 06:36 AM
I tried it... It works... But it's still needs to evolve... and probably will...