Safari for Windows

8th August, 2006 @ 1:37pm UTC

Accessibility, Browsers, Design, Development, News, Tools, Web, Web Standards / 2 Comments

The toolbars of Swift, the first WebKit-based browser for Windows

Swift is the first WebKit based browser for Windows - WebKit is the rendering engine behind the popular Mac browsers Safari and Shiira.

As any Windows web developer knows, cross-browser compatibility can be a real nightmare to test without a Mac handy. Hopefully the release of Swift will make things a little easier.

You can download the current alpha release from the website; although the last time I checked, the download seemed to be unavailable. This is probably due to bandwidth limits being exceeded - I notice Ann van Kesteren has just linked to the site and Vitamin linked there earlier (which is how I discovered it myself).

Here’s a nice screeny of it running on my Windows 2000 Pro machine at work:

An image of Swift, the first WebKit-based browser for Windows, running on Windows 2000 Pro

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  1. Gravatar Image Stuart Colville August 9, 2006 @ 10:37 am

    That is definitely a step in the right direction if you’ve only got windows to hand, however, one thing that makes it slightly less useful is that it won’t have cocoa controls e.g. submit buttons etc.

    I’d be interested to try and do some comparisons between the output of both swift and safari.

  2. Gravatar Image Tim August 9, 2006 @ 10:43 am

    In actual fact, due to it’s alpha status at the moment, it’s form controls don’t appear to be working anyway!

    Judging by various email conversations I’ve had with other developers; bugs that appear in Safari don’t always appear in Swift. With that in mind Stu, your idea of a Swift/Safari comparison would probably be a good one. Any Windows and Mac developers out there with some time on their hands?

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