Re:Helium Browser
by anon1395 on Thursday September 25, 2025 @03:49AM
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Safari should be on Windows. I don't care what CSS standards it has, it needs to give Chrome and Firefox some competition
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It used to be there, 2007-2012 https://archive.org/details/safari-5.1.7-windows
I found an announcement in Italian on Apple website. It's from June 2007 https://www.apple.com/it/newsroom/2007/06/11Apple-Introduces...
The original plan with the iPhone was to have web apps, not native apps. That's why they needed to run the rendering engine of the iPhone on Windows. Then they went native and Mac only with the dev environment.
I don't think that Apple would earn one single dollar by porting Safari to Windows again.
Re:Helium Browser
by NoGravitas on Thursday September 25, 2025 @11:53AM
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You used to be able to get Epiphany preview on Windows, for quite a long time after you could get Safari on Windows. Doesn't seem to be the case anymore, though.
Re:Helium Browser
by password4321 on Sunday October 05, 2025 @10:40PM
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Here are the Windows WebKit builds: https://build.webkit.org/#/builders/1192
"MiniBrowser" opened after installing AppleMobileDeviceSupport64 from iTunes and VC_redist.x64, and it appeared to be making network requests, but it never rendered any web content I could see.
The layout tests on Windows are failing at the moment due to a regression introduced a few days ago (likely https://commits.webkit.org/301043@main).
The easiest way to run WebKit on Windows is via Playwright.