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Old June 12th 18, 05:43 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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Philip Herlihy wrote:
In article ,
says...
On Sat, 9 Jun 2018 21:16:02 +0100, Philip Herlihy
wrote:

In article ,
lid says...
On 06/08/2018 03:02 PM, Ralph Fox wrote:

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IME Safari 5.1.7 is a little bit out of date as web standards go.
Safari (Mac OS) is at version 11.1, making 5.1.7 look old.
Is there a Windows browser that uses the Safari rendering engine?

If I remember correctly, Safari uses the open-source WebKit engine. I
don't think any Windows browsers use the engine but lots of browsers
on the Linux side should.


Last time I had access to Safari it did render certain layout
differently from Chrome.


Strategically, Safari had about the same status as Konqueror browser.
"I made sure my platform had a browser". Tick the box. It's like
making sure your OS has an ftp client in Terminal. Tick the box.

Neither Safari nor Konqueror were ever going to be candidates
for world domination. Half the sites you'd try them on, wouldn't
work properly, so there was hardly a reason to stick with them.
As someone already quipped earlier, browsers either work, or,
"they're great for downloading a browser that does actually work".

And I think Safari might be alright at the job of downloading
some other browser. (On my Mac G4, that's exactly what I used
Safari for, to fetch a Firefox .dmg.)

One of the reasons Chrome is dominant today, is the manufacturer
was willing to pay $1 for each copy excreted onto a machine. A
number of people received Chrome, without expecting it to show
up, and someone received $1 for making that happen. It seems
even Chromium (the open-source variant) could be received
via drive-by install, although I doubt Google was paying
$1 for that to happen. Someone in one of the other newsgroups
had that happen, but unfortunately it wasn't possible to
verify how Chromium browser got on the machine.

Paul
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Old June 12th 18, 06:54 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10
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On 6/12/2018 9:43 AM, Paul wrote:

One of the reasons Chrome is dominant today, is the manufacturer was
willing to pay $1 for each copy excreted onto a machine.


Maybe I misunderstand you (or maybe I was just lucky) but over the years
I've never had a new Windows machine where Chrome was already
installed. I've always had to use the included MS browser to download
and install it.

But then of course turnabout is fair play. My recent Chromebook purchase
didn't come with a MS browser either. But since it has access to the
Google Play Store I do have my choice of several other browsers
(including Edge). Thus I'm not stuck with only the included (embedded?)
Chrome browser.
 




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