“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chrome in features” is not

Re:“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chr... by dTal on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:33PM (#28013700)

>I understand why Apple is doing it

Do you? It sounds like you're implying that they can't do it, despite also pointing out that they easily could.

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Re:“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chr... by my123 on Friday July 30, 2021 @07:42PM (#28013773)

They did the technical work to allow WebKit to build on Windows: https://webkit.org/webkit-on-windows/

That's the AppleWin port which relies on non-redistributable libraries, using the iTunes compatibility libraries.

There's also upstream the WinCairo port, which is redistributable. (can be downloaded from Buildbot at https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingCairoOnWindows#Download...)

It's just that Apple doesn't want to make Safari as a whole available on Windows, while making it easy for others to develop browsers using that same engine - even on Windows.

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Re:“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chr... by D13Fd on Friday July 30, 2021 @08:22PM (#28014017)

They used to distribute Safari on Windows. Back then it had little adoption.

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Re:“Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's behind Chr... by jefftk on Saturday July 31, 2021 @07:49AM (#28017270)

Little adoption among users, but still super useful to developers. I wish they still did.

(WebKit isn't enough; I often need to test Safari behavior specifically)

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