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Webkit nightlies5/30/2023 I downloaded the recommended webkit, launched it, found it to launch instead of install, found that it looked like Safari, quit it, copied it to Applications and left it there. I myself found the instructions confusing. If you find a bug and determine that it is in the WebKit used as basis for OmniWeb, you can then check against a more recent WebKit Nightly release to see if Apple has corrected it.Īt first I was confused, but now I'm pretty sure this is how it works. The corresponding WebKit compiled application, or something very near it, is what they recommend for testing to see if sneaky peek bugs are in WebKit or Omni code. For stability and sanity, OmniWeb is based on one fairly recent WebKit code version. If it appears only in OW then it is probably in the code Omni added onto WebKit, and thus something for Omni coders to fix. If an OmniWeb problem also appears in WebKit, then the issue is with WebKit code and should be reported to and fixed by Apple. The problem can be in either WebKit or in the code Omni adds to extend WebKit. The extension occurs at the level of coding and compiling, so we end users can't mix and match on our own. WebKit is a no-frills browser which is extended to build OmniWeb or Safari. So, what we are really doing is having the ability to compare how the WebKit application renders a page to how OmniWeb renders a page?Īnd, downloading a nightly build of WebKit will not affect how the OmniWeb application functions because it uses its own "built-in" WebKit code? We recommend testing against Revision 13302." There isn't a WebKit Nightly directly corresponding with this revision however. You can download a nightly build of WebKit.app based on a similar version of WebKit from WebKit Nightlies. "OmniWeb is using a modified version of WebKit based off of revision 13295. I had been thinking that OmniGroup was recommending that we install a newer version of WebKit which the OmniWeb sneaky peak would use. Note that if you launch Safari as well, it will look like you have two Safaris running at once. However, its icon is different (gold rimmed compass rather than silver) so you will be able to tell that you are running the WebKit version rather than Safari by looking in your Dock. When WebKit is launched, it looks just like Safari.
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