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Why no Safari?
by jjtheblunt 7y ago
Why no Safari?
- jonathansampson 7y agoProximity, mostly. I'm a Windows user. That said, I am planning on setting up a proxy connection to test Safari on my MacBook.
- skykooler 7y agoIsn't there a Safari for Windows? I remember ending up with it after installing iTunes a few years back.
- Someone1234 7y agoDiscontinued after May 9, 2012.
- ascagnel_ 7y agoIt's no longer supported, and the last released version is so old it's likely unsafe.
- jonathansampson 7y agoHere's the review of Safari: https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/1166462700794388481 https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11664627007943884...
- jjtheblunt 7y agoThank you!
- paulddraper 7y agoI'm guessing because it's damned hard to run. You have to have Apple hardware to run Safari.
- IloveHN84 7y agoOr a virtual machine
- jchw 7y agoThat, too, is hard without Apple hardware. KVM is probably the only virtual machine software that runs macOS with minimal fuss and patching outside of Apple hardware and it still requires a fair bit of work (though scripts exist to automate all of it.) Many guides to creating Hackintosh setups hinge on having at least one existing Mac. The only saving grace for KVM is that people have developed tools to download macOS directly from the Mac App Store CDN and deal with the DMG image.
- unnouinceput 7y agoI run VMWare for cross-platform development and I can tell you I have no problems running Apple OS'es since Mountain Lion 10 years. I have around 20 VM's with different MacOS'es that I use/used for testing/development. No Apple hardware at all, only my good old custom PC that houses all of them
- jchw 7y agoAh, I also have used VMware Workstation to run macOS, although my Workstation 15 license has mostly collected dust thanks to KVM. Since you’ve been doing this for a while, perhaps you’ve simply forgotten that running macOS natively on VMware outside macOS actually requires patching? Granted, there is a tool[1] for this that is pretty popular and easy to use. But it’s still required when running without hacks. Finally, where are you getting your installation media? Apple only allows downloads of macOS installation media via the Mac App Store. I suspect you may possibly be referring to using pre-configured Hackintosh VMs that use EFI emulation and FakeSMC instead of running natively. Frankly, I just don’t trust OS images from random sketchy third parties. [1]: https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker https://github.com/DrDonk/unlocker
- 7y ago
- jakeogh 7y agohere's plain (in a good way:) webkit: https://surf.suckless.org https://surf.suckless.org First launch: 0 bytes. The note at the top of surf's page about the lack of tabs is missing some context, surf is composable, so if you want tabs, it comes with a script to use tabbed. Each window (or tab) runs in it's own process (skipping some details). It's also easy to enable/disable JS (per process) out of the box with it's keybindings. Manpage: http://dpaste.com/1R3Q242.txt http://dpaste.com/1R3Q242.txt
- yoz-y 7y agoI tried to use suckless software at some point but stopped in the end. In theory the idea is good, but sadly the software is not up to par. For a lightweight WebKit browser with minimal UI and vim mode included I’d recommend QuteBrowser https://qutebrowser.org/ https://qutebrowser.org/
- jakeogh 7y agoQute's realy nice. I should try it again just for the py-ness. Using Gentoo's -9999 ebuilds for dmenu and surf, both are solid and maintained.
- Jaruzel 7y agoIs there any way to easy run webkit on Windows?
- password4321 7y agoI wouldn't say easy, but definitely possible to run the official nightly build. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708905 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20708905