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WebKit is part of Qt and thus available for any platform. Or did I miss something?
by vog 17y ago
WebKit is part of Qt and thus available for any platform.
Or did I miss something?
- blasdel 17y agoThe Qt version (and Chrome's version) uses the platform to do the font rendering, which on everything but OS X and Windows would be freetype. If the client wanted Apple's particular font rendering, they'd have to use their version of Webkit. The least-shitty way to do that is to write a Webkit app for OS X (there's also the Windows version of Safari, but that would involve a lot of bullshit)
- sailormoon 17y agoYep, that's exactly it. Didn't even have to write an app - I used this excellent tool: http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/ http://www.paulhammond.org/webkit2png/
- sailormoon 17y agoUndoubtedly it was I who missed something! It just came down to "well, I have a working script right here for mac, or I can spend the next days/weeks/maybe never trying to get it working and looking nice on linux". I guess people don't hear "we went with the mac to save money" too often but in this case, that's what it was. But even so - I generally don't much like linux's font rendering. Doing it on mac meant that the images looked beautiful, basically exactly like Safari, which was to the client's (and my) taste.