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Old June 9th 18, 10:28 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
Mayayana
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"Philip Herlihy" wrote

| Is there a Windows browser that uses the Safari rendering engine?
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Chrome. Opera.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit

I gets confusing. Chrome userAgent also says Safari
and "like Gecko" I guess that's because they want
websites to treat them the same. They're implying
that their version of WebKit is equivalent to both Safari
and the Firefox Gecko engine. Firefox UA, on the other
hand, just says Gecko.

I've never really used Chrome or Safari. I avoid doing
business with either Google or Apple as much as
possible. So maybe WebKit is like Gecko. I don't know.

The really bizarre UA is Microsoft's Edge:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/17.17134

It pretends to be every browser except the one it is,
never admitting that it's actually an IE derivative,
basically IE with all the IE-specific functionality stripped
out. (All prior versions of IE have "MSIE" in the UA.)

I haven't used Edge, either. (I haven't even
allowed IE online since about 2000.) But I'm
guessing that Edge is not really all that similar
to WebKit or Gecko. There seem to be a lot of
complaints about its rendering.


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