Question about Leopard Webkit and Snow Leopard

[Sam R.]

First, I've read that you and someone else have tried to port this app to Snow Leopard, but failed. However, on your wiki page, why does it say that it supports 10.6 (Intel 32 Bit, Intel 64 Bit, PowerPC)? It's very misleading.

[Tobias Netzel]

Snow Leopard was supported until the 537 series. Some volunteers tried porting later series but lost interest when it became clear that it would cost them too much time for not even achieving Safari 5.1 support (but only 5.0.5).
The wiki page states that 10.6 support is a goal of this project - an unreached one unfortunately.

[Sam R.]

Ok, but do you know any browser that is currently being updated for Snow Leopard?

[Tobias Netzel]

Well, there is Roccat, but that's only the browser and not the HTML, DOM, CSS or JavaScript libraries (which is the part that WebKit does).
Updating WebKit upgrades Safari's or Roccat's web capabilities to the level of newer versions of OS X.

But TenFourFox will probably come to Intel OS X sometime this year I guess.

[Anonymous]

I recently noticed that Waterfox is still built for Lion
at least at this very moment, Snow Leopard has no up-to-date browser
the newest (and may be most secure) is the latest supported version of Firefox.
Google Chrome 32 Bit (for 32 machines which cannot get a Lion Update) is way outdated (althru most websites still work)

[Lee McLean]

I wish I had the knowledge to do this stuff - I would love an up-to-date version of Safari on 10.6. Your old Webkit port is still my most used browser, but I have to resort to Firefox or Chrome for many sites, especially when up-to-date SSL support is required (if I could get that alone working with Safari it would greatly extend its usefullness).