KHTML on Windows part III
EDIT: There is now a part IV of this serie.
I have two times written about ways of getting a KHTML browser (Konqueror) to work on Windows (Win32). If you are interested I wrote, part I and part II where I tell you the why, who and when. The first guide was quite complex, the second guide a bit easier but not dead easy. Now it is time for my third try, I think this one my grandmother could grasp.
The really easy way to get Konqueror up and running on Windows in 6 steps.
- Head over to WMware and download their Free version of WMware Player.
- Install WMware Player, if your firewall screams just OK that.
- Next, go to this page and download the SUSE 10 with KDE 3.5 WMware Player image.
- Unzip the file, the folder should contain a few files.
- Fire up WMware Player, the program will ask for a image file, find the folder you just unzipped.
- Your firewall might scream, just OK that.
Now SUSE loads and after a while you are greated with the SUSE desktop and Konqueror is loaded, just head over to any website of your choice.
Done, easy as that, Konqeror on Windows in 6 steps. Be amazed of the speed of using WMware Player and that networking just works.
January 12th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
Is it better than FireFox and Opera?
January 15th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Safari, based on KHTML was the first browser to pass the Acid2 test, so it is good.
June 22nd, 2006 at 7:28 am
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June 28th, 2006 at 2:31 pm
There is another way. There is a “KHTML on Win32 Native” project on sourceforge. I think it is the best, but I can’t guarantee it, since I use Linux.
June 28th, 2006 at 3:18 pm
Thanks Woland, the project you are pointing to, is it alive, if looking at the page, it has not been updated since 2004. You have any other information on that?
June 28th, 2006 at 3:33 pm
I don’t know. I found it when I googled for “KHTML windows”.
June 28th, 2006 at 4:16 pm
No Jens, the first browser to pass Acid2 was konqueror. Safari could pass it only in the development release - i.e. not a released version everyone could use and actually verify the fact. (That’s not to say that apple developers were lying, ofcourse !)
June 28th, 2006 at 4:25 pm
Rohan, you are absolutely correct, a minor brain error from my part
July 10th, 2006 at 6:12 am
Max Safari (engine) on Windows…
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August 10th, 2006 at 10:29 am
[...] As for getting Konqueror working on a Windows PC, well it seems like the only current option is to install some sort of virtual Linux (eg. CygWin (tutorial), coLinux, or perhaps VMWare (tutorial)) and install KDE. It’s a bit involved, but it does work…slowly. [...]
August 14th, 2006 at 10:54 am
[...] Another useful application is VMware Player. It’s a free application that allows you to run a virtual machine (i.e. a flavor of Linux) on your windows PC. Why is this interesting? This allows you to QA your site on the Konqueror browser which uses the same rendering engine as Safari. You can get it running it six easy steps. I just read that Swift maybe another option but it’s pre-alpha at this point. -Chuck Lai no comments trackback this article comment on this article [...]
August 15th, 2006 at 9:36 am
i recently came across Swift , its a new windows browser that is based on the apple Webkit Rendering engine used by safari (Webkit is based on the KHTML engine)
i havent had a lot of time to test it yet, but i was already very happy after running a few basic javascript tests, it seems to support everything Gecko does including the unnoficial methods like definegetter etc…
August 15th, 2006 at 9:37 am
http://www.getswift.org/
August 15th, 2006 at 12:03 pm
Thanks Aaike for the comment. I did write a part IV in this series just about Swift. You can find it here
http://jedisthlm.com/2006/08/07/khtml-aka-safari-on-windows-part-iv/
September 24th, 2006 at 9:11 am
just wanted to say… AWESOME tip… been looking for a way to get KDE without actually installing a unix… but i guess an emu will work.
Now i can actually view the JS errors KDE/Safari gives without trying to find someone with a mac!
Thanks again, -ALL
September 27th, 2006 at 6:32 pm
Nice that I could help out.
November 10th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
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