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> And they don’t care about promoting WebKit at all, because any alt-browsers running it would just provide competition for Safari anyway. Check out webkit.org

by mattl 2y ago

> And they don’t care about promoting WebKit at all, because any alt-browsers running it would just provide competition for Safari anyway. Check out webkit.org: https://www.webkit.org/downloads/ https://www.webkit.org/downloads/ Browsers for Linux are right there.

Apocryphon 2y ago
Sure, because KHTML and the Epiphany project predate Safari. Gotta mention it for legacy reasons.
- mattl 2y ago
  GNOME Web (formerly Epiphany) switched from Gecko to WebKit in 2008, long after Safari was around.
  - Apocryphon 2y ago
    Alright, that's fair. I was going to say "Well, that's just because there's no such thing as Safari for Linux" but at this point I'm somewhat losing the plot. I suppose ultimately it seems like Apple just cares about Safari for its own platforms and if others happen to use WebKit, that's nice but they don't care, it's not like they're seeking to impact the web like Google does. For all of Apple's contributions for WebKit, you don't exactly see them doing something like this: "Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers" https://blog.chromium.org/2025/01/announcing-supporters-of-chromium-based.html https://blog.chromium.org/2025/01/announcing-supporters-of-c... Huh. That WebKit site links to a Mastodon account that doesn't even say anything. Maybe it's for queries. https://front-end.social/@webkit https://front-end.social/@webkit
    - mattl 2y ago
      WebKit has this: https://webkit.org/team/ https://webkit.org/team/ https://www.igalia.com https://www.igalia.com seems to the other major contributor. Sony is in there a little too. https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Companies%20and%20Organizations%20that%20have%20contributed%20to%20WebKit https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Companies%20and%20Organizations... too but that's 12 years out of date. I would love to see a WebKit browser for Windows that's released, but https://docs.webkit.org/Ports/WindowsPort.html https://docs.webkit.org/Ports/WindowsPort.html does exist too. As for the Mastodon link, I'd ask https://front-end.social/@jensimmons https://front-end.social/@jensimmons

by mattl 2y ago

Apocryphon 2y ago

Sure, because KHTML and the Epiphany project predate Safari. Gotta mention it for legacy reasons.

mattl 2y ago
GNOME Web (formerly Epiphany) switched from Gecko to WebKit in 2008, long after Safari was around.
- Apocryphon 2y ago
  Alright, that's fair. I was going to say "Well, that's just because there's no such thing as Safari for Linux" but at this point I'm somewhat losing the plot. I suppose ultimately it seems like Apple just cares about Safari for its own platforms and if others happen to use WebKit, that's nice but they don't care, it's not like they're seeking to impact the web like Google does. For all of Apple's contributions for WebKit, you don't exactly see them doing something like this: "Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers" https://blog.chromium.org/2025/01/announcing-supporters-of-chromium-based.html https://blog.chromium.org/2025/01/announcing-supporters-of-c... Huh. That WebKit site links to a Mastodon account that doesn't even say anything. Maybe it's for queries. https://front-end.social/@webkit https://front-end.social/@webkit
  - mattl 2y ago
    WebKit has this: https://webkit.org/team/ https://webkit.org/team/ https://www.igalia.com https://www.igalia.com seems to the other major contributor. Sony is in there a little too. https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Companies%20and%20Organizations%20that%20have%20contributed%20to%20WebKit https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/Companies%20and%20Organizations... too but that's 12 years out of date. I would love to see a WebKit browser for Windows that's released, but https://docs.webkit.org/Ports/WindowsPort.html https://docs.webkit.org/Ports/WindowsPort.html does exist too. As for the Mastodon link, I'd ask https://front-end.social/@jensimmons https://front-end.social/@jensimmons