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A Safari Web Browser For Windows…Kinda

August 10th, 2006
5 Comments Written by Ryan


A Safari Web Browser For Windows

Well, this one is kind of far fetched but the Swift Web Browser is supposed for those people who like Apple’s Safari browser. At least the header on their site reads “Like Apple’s Safari? Get Swift!” It definitely doesn’t look like Safari and the only similarities that you will find is in the rendering engine since it uses the Apple WebKit.

I would go into details about the features but, well, there aren’t really any :) . The Tools menu has no options and all of the other menus are very basic. I can’t imagine that people would seriously want this browser in Windows when there are several other browsers that have much better site compatibility. The only reason I could see this being useful is if you didn’t have access to a Mac computer and wanted to test out your site to make sure it is compatible with Safari.

Swift is in the Alpha stages so it is way too early to be judging anything. All browsers have to start somewhere and even Firefox started off with only the basics.

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  1. August 10th, 2006 at 5:39 pm Anonymous Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    This is excellent, I will be looking forward to this one.

  2. December 21st, 2006 at 6:26 am dstewart Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    The link takes you to an “under construction” page.
    Here is a better link http://www.getswift.org

  3. December 21st, 2006 at 7:25 am SLA (All-Star) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    I’m glad to see SWIFT browser is alive again :) SWIFT is the fastest way for web designers to “test website on Mac”, when they have only windows PC. ;)

  4. December 21st, 2006 at 10:05 am Ryan (Author) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    dstewart wrote:
    The link takes you to an “under construction” page.
    Here is a better link http://www.getswift.org

    Thanks, I updated the link!

    SLA wrote:
    I’m glad to see SWIFT browser is alive again :) SWIFT is the fastest way for web designers to “test website on Mac”, when they have only windows PC. ;)

    Well, I have been trying to figure out why my Release Calendar (which uses JavaScript to retrieve a Google Calendar) doesn’t work in Safari but testing it with Swift shows that it does work. I have tested it with Safari though and it doesn’t work. I wish Swift was a little closer to Safari.

  5. December 21st, 2006 at 12:26 pm SLA (All-Star) Quote this Comment Report this Comment
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    Ryan wrote:
    Well, I have been trying to figure out why my Release Calendar (which uses JavaScript to retrieve a Google Calendar) doesn’t work in Safari but testing it with Swift shows that it does work.

    Then it would be interesting to try also “Konqueror” (Linux), because Safari was made from Konqueror, and they both use the same KHTML engine.

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