Tobias Netzel

Well, no idea about the API the Safari IOS app uses for interfacing with the WebKit frameworks. For Leopard I "only" needed to maintain the classic WebKit Objective-C API compatible with the Safari application - no WebKit2 APIs fortunately. There were rather few point where I had to do something user interface related, since the user interface is almost entirely provided by the application which uses the WebKit API for rendering web pages.

Well, I've got no idea at all. I bet it would take many months to get anything to even launch at all.

I don't know the current state because I haven't been using leopard-webkit for some time. But I used to relink the Leopard Mail application using the relink droplet and that way could still connect reasonably well to a variety of e-mail services. Gmail needed to have improved connection security switched off for Leopard Mail to be able to connect.

Plain old internet has become enormously complicated over the decades - and unfortunately I'm not working any longer on leopard-webkit. My iMac G5 has died some time ago...

Plain old internet has become enormously complicated over the decades - and unfortunately I'm not working any longer on leopard-webkit.

Well, I have been collaborating with Cameron Kaiser in his TenFourFox project - especially with the Altivac enhancements. Unfortunatelay it's quite difficult to use a different TLS library in WebKit on OS X because WebKit itself doesn't use TLS directly but indirectly via OS framework interfaces. Generally WebKit uses OS interfaces whereever possible while Firefox uses its own code whereever possible. That way WebKit is deeply integrated into the OS, making it particularly difficult to replace something...

No update in the works. I had the 605 merge halfway done but never finished it. I fear this is the end of Leopard WebKit - the biggest problem being in fact the lack of modern TLS cipher suites, making more and more sites inaccessible. While updating the WebKit core would be feasible (for me), updating the TLS cipher suites would be a project of its own.

No update in the works. I had the 605 merge halfway done but never finished it. I fear this is the end of Leopard WebKit - the biggest problem being in fact the lack of modern TLS cipher suites, making more and more sites inaccessible.