I dont see any reason is woulnd't be able to run on OS X... though you may be right - getting a supported GTk+ to compile it against might be troublesome. I don't have a Mac or I'd gladly give it a shot. Luakit does indeed use the same webkit that Chrome and Safari use... and unless you just want a minimal wrapper around webkit, you're probably better off using one of those two instead.
On Mar 2, 12:20 pm, Eric Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mar 2, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Måns wrote: > > >> Will it run in OS X? > > > A comment: > >http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1947036 > > > I guess you'll have to use Linux ... > > Thanks, Måns. Interesting. At the luakit page on github it is described as "a > fast, light and simple to use micro-browser framework exensible by Lua using > the WebKit web content engine and the GTK+ toolkit." > > Googling "webkit" the first item describes it thus: "WebKit is an open source > web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework > version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other > OS X applications." > > If it is indeed a problem on OS X, must be GTK+? The GTK+ website describes > it as "a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces." > Responding to the question, Where can it be used, it says, "Everywhere!" > > Pretty certain it's all beyond me, though. Wouldn't have a clue how to go > about any of this. And with webkit originating in OS X I wouldn't be > surprised if it turned out not to solve my apparently OS X-related TiddlyWiki > problems. > > Thanks again, > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Eric Weir > Decatur, GA > [email protected] > > "What does it mean...that the world is so beautiful?" > > - Mary Oliver -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
