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ADC on using nightly WebKit builds
Last year we blogged about the availability of nightly WebKit builds (WebKit being the HTML rendering engine that Apple uses in OS X and has made available to the Open Source community). The Apple Developer Connection has an article up explaining what nightly builds are and why you might want to use them. The long and the short of it being that if you are a developer using WebKit to power your app (or widget) nightly builds give you a chance to see the changes in WebKit before they become part of the OS.[via Surfin' Safari]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
James Whited said 9:12AM on 11-06-2006
This may seem offtopic, but I like that icon better than the stock Safari one. Anyway I can get a PNG verson of it with transperancy. I've got work to do hacking my icons.
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Jonathan Allen said 9:27AM on 11-06-2006
Or you can just download webkit......
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CajunLuke said 9:40AM on 11-06-2006
I use it because it's stabler than the "official" Safari builds.
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CyBeR said 10:15AM on 11-06-2006
I use webkit when I need to do web development work. Not only is it slightly more compliant to random things than current safari, it also includes lots of cool developer-related stuff like a javascript debugger.
Other than that it does sometimes contain bugs so for normal browsing I use normal safari.
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kontorhotel said 10:15AM on 11-06-2006
I really use this often,, as it helps me out with lots of stuff. and yes to nr-. 3...
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estratton said 11:27AM on 11-06-2006
Only down side is that Saft will not work with Webkit. Once that gets worked out, I'll be back to webkit in a flash.
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starwxrwx said 6:38PM on 11-09-2006
I was using WebKit for ages with no problems, but lately it seems to crash, a LOT, so I've switched back to Safari. Anyone else notice this?
Also, flickr doesn't seem to work in it anymore - not sure why. Is it just me?
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