Comment by mattl
1 year ago
> And they don’t care about promoting WebKit at all, because any alt-browsers running it would just provide competition for Safari anyway.
Check out webkit.org:
https://www.webkit.org/downloads/
Browsers for Linux are right there.
Sure, because KHTML and the Epiphany project predate Safari. Gotta mention it for legacy reasons.
GNOME Web (formerly Epiphany) switched from Gecko to WebKit in 2008, long after Safari was around.
Alright, that's fair. I was going to say "Well, that's just because there's no such thing as Safari for Linux" but at this point I'm somewhat losing the plot. I suppose ultimately it seems like Apple just cares about Safari for its own platforms and if others happen to use WebKit, that's nice but they don't care, it's not like they're seeking to impact the web like Google does.
For all of Apple's contributions for WebKit, you don't exactly see them doing something like this:
"Supporters of Chromium-based Browsers" https://blog.chromium.org/2025/01/announcing-supporters-of-c...
Huh. That WebKit site links to a Mastodon account that doesn't even say anything. Maybe it's for queries.
https://front-end.social/@webkit
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