[webkit-help] Safari For Windows

[Leon Spencer]

If you are interesting in running against the latest rendering engine for a particular platform (e.g. WebKit, Trident, Gecko, ...), probably best to either obtain an open source browser or find one that allows you to plug-n-play with the rendering engine.

open source but many others: http://www.dillo.org/ 

After you pull done the nightly building of the rendering engine, just kickoff a build of the browser.

BTW, have you looked at LunaScape?

Leon







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From: Adam Roben <aroben at apple.com>
To: Bazzer Francis <bazzerfrancis at yahoo.com>
Cc: webkit-help at lists.webkit.org
Sent: Wed, November 11, 2009 12:49:51 PM
Subject: Re: [webkit-help] Safari For Windows


On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Bazzer Francis wrote:

             In essence does running the nightly builds as i have been doing, update the safari engine,or as you said before they get dumped in a temporary file somewhere & nothing gets updated.

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "the safari engine". Maybe you mean WebKit?

Running a nightly build does not modify your installed version of Safari at all. (Your installed version of Safari is probably in C:\Program Files\Safari.)

When you run a nightly build, the script launches your installed version of Safari in a way that makes it use the version of WebKit that was included in the nightly build, rather than the version of WebKit that came with Safari.

If I put a shortcut on the desktop is that going to do the same thing as running the cmd file & auto extracting it.
Yes, double-clicking a shortcut to the .cmd file will do the same thing as double-clicking the .cmd file itself.

-Adam



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From: Adam Roben <aroben at apple.com>
>To: Bazzer Francis <bazzerfrancis at yahoo.com>
>Cc: webkit-help at lists.webkit..org
>Sent: Thu, 12 November, 2009 7:24:32 AM
>Subject: Re: [webkit-help] Safari For Windows
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>On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Bazzer Francis wrote:
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>               I guess that is why I see 0% copying when i run the cmd file. How do i go about setting thing up so i can install the nightly builds,I have in the past run nightly updates when I was using firefox without too much problem just a little unstable at times,is it the same with Webkit...Brian
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>You can't "install" a WebKit nightly build the way you can with a Firefox nightly build. WebKit nightly builds don't even include a browser – they only include WebKit. You can of course set up a shortcut in your Start menu or on your Desktop that points to the run-nightly-webkit.cmd file if you want easier access to the nightly build.
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From: Adam Roben <aroben at apple.com>
>>To: Bazzer Francis <bazzerfrancis at yahoo.com>
>>Cc: webkit-help at lists.webkit.org
>>Sent: Thu, 12 November, 2009 7:05:42 AM
>>Subject: Re: [webkit-help] Safari For Windows
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>>On Nov 11, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Bazzer Francis wrote:
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>>I have installed the latest version of Safari for Windows &  have been downloading the the nightly updates,when downloaded I open the the downloaded file & then auto extract the contents. Next step i right click on the run cmd file & let it run where it seems to copy files. Could anyone assist & confirm that is all I have to do & how do i tell if the update has been applied..... Regards Bazzer 
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>>Nightly builds don't affect your installed version of Safari. The copying you're seeing is just copying things into a temporary directory, which is where the nightly runs from. Replacing your installed version of WebKit with a version from a nightly build is not supported.
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>>-Adam
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