Inconvenienced Electrons

I have been playing with the development build of WebKit. For those who don’t know, WebKit is the backend for Apple’s web browser (Safari.) The WebKit has nightly builds for Mac and Windows. I had no trouble getting the source from SVN and building clean. I am impressed with their progress over the release Safari. With the WebKit that is currently under development, web pages seem to render faster. It also passes the Acid3 test. Does your browser pass? http://acid3.acidtests.org/ The instructions for a clean build in Leopard are very simple:

1. Get XCode. (either off your install DVD or from apple.com)
2. Obtain your favorite SVN client (I like using fink.)
3. svn checkout http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk WebKit
4. WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts/build-webkit
5. WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts/run-safari

It took me about 10 minutes to build the WebKit, but it might have been faster if the makefile forked multiple gcc threads.