All Things Patrick - Working Hard to be Lazy!

I've been discussing the usage of multiple browsers for testing of CSS & JavaScript with several friends over the last several months. One of the issues has been trying to find a viable browser for Windows/Linux that will render web pages the same way that Safari on the Mac renders pages.

This used to be fairly simple... As long as you had access to a linux box that had KDE's Konqueror installed - Konqueror & Safari both used the KHTMLview rendering library. Then Apple decided to go it's own route & branched away from KHTMLview... so some things worked the same & others didn't. I'm not sure if anybody has a comprehensive list of the differences or if it's even worth it. Apple has named this new rendering library WebKit.

A week or so ago Craig Fowler, a friend of mine on irc.psionics.net#dnd3e pointed out the fact that somebody had started a new open source project with the purpose of bringing Safari to Windows. Great information, but not something I was going to work with right away as I had other things on my plate... I lost the URL & I couldn't remember what the name of it was.

Ain't Google great? Googling for safari for windows turned up some of the best spots for information - webstandards.org, Anne van Kesteren's blog, & the 456 Berea Street blog.

This gives me the project name of Swift & the url of http://www.getswift.org/.