I downloaded Night Shift and it works great. Thanks for this info.
On Jun 19, 2008, at 3:10 AM, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
erik burggraaf wrote:
Debra, have you looked at webkit? It's very closely related to
safari, and it's nightly builds have advanced features safari
doesn't. I tried one and it broke more than it fixed, but one day
I'll try a new one and see if I like it better.
To be more exact, WebKit is the open-source web engine that
underpins Safari and a whole family of minor browsers (e.g. OmniWeb,
iCab, and Shiira on Mac OS X, Epiphany on GNOME, the S60 Browser on
certain Nokia phones). When you install a nightly build of WebKit, a
second instance of Safari, called WebKit, is created in your
Applications folder. This essentially is your current Safari
interface but powered by the nightly build of the web engine.
NightShift is a useful utility for keeping your nightly builds up to
date.
I would strongly encourage VoiceOver users to test WebKit Nightly
regularly and report bugs on the public bugtracker, since bugs not
found will end up in the next release of Safari. It's also a good
place to make feature requests, since it means that people outside
Apple can see and work on them. The WebKit developers have no system
for automating testing the accessibility tree produced by WebKit and
read by VoiceOver. That means they have no automated system for
catching regressions. User testing might have caught multiple select
boxes breaking between Safari 2.1 and 3, for example.
Here's some websites to get you started:
WebKit project home: http://webkit.org/
Guide to reporting bugs: http://webkit.org/quality/reporting.html
NightShift: http://web.mac.com/reinholdpenner/Software/NightShift.html
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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
