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		my123 on July 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “Safari's buggy” is valid criticism, “Safari's beh... They did the technical work to allow WebKit to build on Windows: https://webkit.org/webkit-on-windows/ That's the AppleWin port which relies on non-redistributable libraries, using the iTunes compatibility libraries. There's also upstream the WinCairo port, which is redistributable. (can be downloaded from Buildbot at https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/BuildingCairoOnWindows#Download...) It's just that Apple doesn't want to make Safari as a whole available on Windows, while making it easy for others to develop browsers using that same engine - even on Windows.

D13Fd on July 31, 2021 [–]

They used to distribute Safari on Windows. Back then it had little adoption.

jefftk on July 31, 2021 | [–]

Little adoption among users, but still super useful to developers. I wish they still did.

(WebKit isn't enough; I often need to test Safari behavior specifically)

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