[webkit-help] Safari For Windows

[Adam Roben]

On Nov 11, 2009, at 4:08 PM, Bazzer Francis wrote:

> So when I click on the safari icon on the quick launch taskbar does it launch safari as the original version that i installed or does it launch in a way that makes it use the webkit that was in the nightly build.

Nightly builds don't change the behavior of the Safari shortcut that Safari's installer puts in your quick launch bar. So if that's the shortcut you mean, then when you click it you should get Safari with its original version of WebKit.

-Adam

> 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 7:49:51 AM
> 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
> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Bazzer Francis wrote:
>> 
>>>                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
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> -Adam
>> 
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>>> On Nov 11, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Bazzer Francis wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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
>>> 
>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> -Adam
>>> 
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