Uchuujin Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 WebKit win32 is a new browser for MS Windows. In Apple's WebKit SVN, there's preliminary work done to make it work on Windows. While WebKit compiles on Win32, it's not fully complete, and no browser exists yet. That's where I come in. I have started work on a browser using the WebKit libraries. Written in MFC/C++, it will feature: *MDI style windows but with tabs for windows (Think mIRC/Crimson Editor) *Password Manger *Private Browsing *Download Manager *Popup Blocker *User Agent Switcher *IE tabs, for those sites that require IE (but won't work with UserAgent Switcher) *Custom list of sites to open in an IE tab automatically *Bookmark menu, with access to IE favorites, and Firefox Importer. *Bookmark bar *Pack up and Go, packs up all browser binaries, libraries, etc config, bookmarks and puts it all on a USB key (think Portable Firefox) *Search box beside location bar (with ability to add custom search engines) That's a basic list so far, this was ment to be just to test out the libs, but I have made this into a full featured project. I will post preliminary basic screenshots soon. If anyone has any ideas, please make a new thread. If anyone has anything they'd wish to contrubute to this project, please PM me. I will have a site up soon (thanks to sHARD>>) at the domain www.getwebkit.org. Any questions, feel free to ask! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 So is this like Safari for Windows? It would be awesome if you could post some pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jape Posted July 24, 2006 Share Posted July 24, 2006 This seems like a pretty good project. I think Konqueror already starts in Win32, but it requires all of KDE deps, so it's way slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uchuujin Posted July 24, 2006 Author Share Posted July 24, 2006 Doesn't Konqi also want Cygwin? All this requires is iconv, libxml, zlib, icu, xslt, webkit dll, and MFC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arcanis Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 If you can make it look and work like Safari I'll love you big time Would be nice to test a WebKit browser on Windows anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uchuujin Posted July 25, 2006 Author Share Posted July 25, 2006 I'm not out to make it look *EXACTLY* like Safari, IE: it's layout and brushed metal, but it will function like safari. Another feature to be added down the road, RSS live bookmarks/page like Safari has. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidplasmaflow Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 I'd like to introduce myself I'm Adam, and I'll be helping out with the design of the program. I'll be working on some layout/theme mockups in the next few weeks. If anyone has any suggestions as to that aspect of the project, I'd love to hear from you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 One of my biggest beefs with web browsers these days, including safari, is the steps you have to go to for adblocking. Firefox is easy, as is Camino, but I'd love it if you would build it into WebKit and let it accept the filterset.G. It would really set your browser apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sHARD>> Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 A quick and dirty website is now up, for those interested. However the code isn't in the repository...quite yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted July 26, 2006 Share Posted July 26, 2006 Is it just me, or will it not let me download the latest Alpha? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uchuujin Posted July 26, 2006 Author Share Posted July 26, 2006 I haven't released anything yet My plans are, I have a server box here, currently on a T1 but going to be moved to a Colo (10mbps) soon. Windows server based, it will pull out svn sources every day at 2am and compile it, and hopefully webkit sources as well. Server specs as follows: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8ghz 1gb RAM 80gb HDD Windows Server 2003 Visual Studio 2005 compilier to be scripted. Also, I noticed a few delegates haven't been ported over in WebKit SVN, I might take a stab at porting those aswell. ADD: i'll have sources/binary by saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sHARD>> Posted August 1, 2006 Share Posted August 1, 2006 I haven't released anything yet My plans are, I have a server box here, currently on a T1 but going to be moved to a Colo (10mbps) soon. Windows server based, it will pull out svn sources every day at 2am and compile it, and hopefully webkit sources as well. Server specs as follows: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ 1.8ghz 1gb RAM 80gb HDD Windows Server 2003 Visual Studio 2005 compilier to be scripted. Also, I noticed a few delegates haven't been ported over in WebKit SVN, I might take a stab at porting those aswell. ADD: i'll have sources/binary by saturday. We'll also be mirroring these compiles automatically on the main server, hosted here through the X Labs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jowra Posted August 8, 2006 Share Posted August 8, 2006 I really like the idea of a safari-port to windows, so keep up the good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNyc Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Actually. so WebKit is not made for OSX (or not meant) but is meant for Windows? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 Actually. so WebKit is not made for OSX (or not meant) but is meant for Windows? No, WebKit is made for OS X and is being ported to Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNyc Posted August 22, 2006 Share Posted August 22, 2006 No, WebKit is made for OS X and is being ported to Windows. ah. So what is the difference with Safari & WebKit ? I can't remember who told me about WebKit on irc but I'm guessing it was you. I noticed Safari saves all my password, usernames. But WebKit is that normal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niteice Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 WebKit is the core rendering engine, Safari puts it into a usable application. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpha Sirius Posted August 23, 2006 Share Posted August 23, 2006 WebKit is just a NextStep (cocoa) Inplemation of KHTML and KJS if you want it on win32 you may use KHTML and KJS with Konqueror on Cygwin using qtwin interface Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNyc Posted September 6, 2006 Share Posted September 6, 2006 I like WebKit so far. but all my saved password are not working .. its blank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adin Posted October 15, 2006 Share Posted October 15, 2006 Any recent news? I noticed that www.getswift.com is down...I'm willing to host files/contribute if need be to at least get .1 back up and available. This project is *really* useful for testing safari compat from Windows OSes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 WebKit... it's OVA' SON! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sHARD>> Posted November 3, 2006 Share Posted November 3, 2006 I still wonder why no one wishes to pick this one up. It's the second best browser on Windows (the core anyhow)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REVENGE Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Yeah, I thought this project looked extremely promissing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trav1085 Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 I haven't read all of this yet, but I don't think a Password manager is needed. Those are as annoying as Autofill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sHARD>> Posted November 8, 2006 Share Posted November 8, 2006 http://try.swift.ws/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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