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Update: the trivial WebKit browser is now included in Ubuntu. Simply install libwebkitgdk0d on Ubuntu gutsy (just click the package name there to install it if you’re running gutsy now) and then run /usr/lib/WebKit/GdkLauncher to get a simple WebKit browser for testing your code. You too can test WebKit, Apple’s web rendering engine and the thing that makes Safari work, on Linux. The KDE teams have been working hard on making it work inside Qt, the KDE widget set, and indeed it does work! A few simple steps are required. First, check out the WebKit source code. There is loads of it, so this will take a while. You’ll need Subversion for this. svn checkout http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk WebKit That will give you a folder called WebKit. You’ll now need a few requirements; the key one is Qt4. On Ubuntu 6.10 (edgy), get this like so: sudo aptitude install libqt4-dev Now build your Qt-based WebKit browser: QTDIR=/usr/share/qt4/ WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts/build-webkit Finally, run it: WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release/WebKitQt/QtLauncher/QtLauncher about:blank I created a menu entry to run it (right-click on the Applications menu, say “Edit Menus”). Now I can test stuff in WebKit! Note that the Subversion version of WebKit is miiiiiiiiles ahead of what Safari is using in released versions of Mac OS X, so don’t think that just because something works in your little WebKit browser it’ll work in Safari. Nonetheless, cool.