January 7, 2003
Safari
Word is trickling in about the new Apple browser called Safari, which was apparently announced at Steve Jobs’ keynote at MacWorld SF. The rendering engine is built on something called KHTML, which may be the KDE library of the same name. Apparently built for speed, the Apple page boasts of support for XHTML, DOM, JavaScript and Unicode, but provides no details as to the level of support (according to the docs, KHTML itself only supports DOM Level 1 and CSS 1, so I don’t hold out much hope) for these technologies.
Well, it sure looks pretty. I’m looking forward to hearing more about it. (Update: Mark Pilgrim is test-driving Safari and posting his discoveries.)
Matt sez: “If I could run OS X on a $1,000 >1.5Ghz intel/amd laptop PC, I’d never use XP again.”












