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Safari for Windows!

getwebkit.org — Apple is releasing a Webkit-based browser for windows. Check it out!

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  • glafira, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7hehe good one. Im gonna try this one, I really like safari on the mac.
    • SentOne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Just tried it, & my advice is don't even waste your time. The GUI doesn't look like safari at all, and most of the sites I visited wouldn't display properly. Swift is not in any way "safari for windows"
    • aknowles5139, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4I bet Apple is just getting back at Microsoft for what they did with IE for the Mac... :P
    • motang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@SentOne Dude it's pre alpha, of course it is not going to nearly as good as Safari. I would give it about 8 months for it be in a usable state (such as beta).
  • palmer, on 10/12/2007, -11/+0Great, now you can have a browser with no way to export your bookmarks on Windows, too!
    • Maverick18x, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8What, does File > Export Bookmarks... just not do it for you?
  • glguy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This browser really seems to have nothing to do with Safari...
    The UI is totally wrong, the rendering engine doesn't even render like safari.
    Alpha seems like an understatement...

    I have to bury this to stop innocent Windows users from getting a bad initial impression of "Safari" and WebKit (sorry)
    • yurivish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You're probably right (I'm on a mac and can't test), I should have put a bit more thought into the title. however, I don't think this will give people a bad impression... Chances are that if they're visiting digg they're tech-savvy to some degree already, and as alpha software nobody expects it to be good. This story is more an "it exists and is being worked on" kind of thing.
  • fraggle35, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12It's got nothing to do with Apple, just based on the webkit
    • pkulak, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1But webkit is Apple... or KDE... but it ain't Windows... yet. ;)
  • spunquik, on 10/12/2007, -7/+0meh
  • peterpixel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This thing is in very early Alpha development and it is really not "Safari for Windows" as the title suggests. Gave it a try, nonetheless.
  • hwrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Apple has nothing to do with this.

    Someone just took the open-source Webkit engine and is porting it to Windows.
  • keybsnbits, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Marked as innacurate - not being released by Apple.
  • somahaiken, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I decided to try it despite the comments. Disappointed that the installer required admin privs. The interface is pretty sad to start with, MDI interface and all. The text rendering is beautiful, but it fails in several other aspects, missing page elements and badly aligned images are what I've seen so far. No digg.
  • SwiftDeveloper, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6This is totally inaccurate.  #1 I (the developer) have no relations with Apple in this project beyond some IRC chat.  #2 The UI isin't supposed to be like safari's, it's ment to be it's own.  #3 IT DOES use WebKit, as there's PROGRESS of it being Ported by Apple and the OpenSource developers on WebKit.  It's not finished yet, and I haven't done a lick of the porting, just making a "shell" around WebKit in MFC.
  • digger_twit, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1Dupe

    http://digg.com/software/Safari_for_Windows

    Please digg the original.
  • SwiftDeveloper, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Erm,

    http://digg.com/software/A_Web_Browser_for_Windows_Based_on_Apple_s_WebKit_rendering_Engine

    THE REAL ORIGNAL!
  • filmgeek, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0Guys webkit as a browser ALREADY exists in windows.

    It's called itunes. Apple runs their webkit browser as a front end for itunes.
  • Harboggles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Bit redundant isn't it?

    Making a good program and making it...bad?
  • deesplease, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Currently, Firefox is excellent, IE 7 is pretty good, Opera is great, and Safari sucks, based on my experiences. I hope it doesn't come to PC anytime soon. Feel free to enlighten me with all the superior features and functionality I'm overlooking, if there are any. Last I checked, there's nothing Safari does that IE 7 and Firefox don't do better, and honestly Safari runs really slow, in my opinion.
  • purpanther, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Funny I keep switching back to Safari because it's lightspeed compared to anything else on my MBP. I have even tested this against Omni Web, Firefox, Camino, Flock, Opera 9, and Netscape. Each browser has it's great strong points (I like Flocks integration with flickr) but I keep dumping browsers and staying with just Safari and Firefox. Firefox mostly for a few compatibility issues. Some sites just work better of FF. Safari is by far (I mean here a few seconds) faster than the other browsers for general use. Now if I could change Safari to look like Camino ...

    *btw - flock and camino are FF based and have the same compatibility pluses*
  • rmaskey, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0seems like the windows version doesn't work through proxy. anybody else facing this problem? soon as you type in the credentials it fails.
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