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by neurostimulant 2236 days ago
Safari on windows were showing osx-styled default buttons, so I think safari also implement their own UI controls, not using system's ui elements.
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kitsunesoba 2236 days ago
That’s because Safari was ported to Windows by porting a large chunk of AppKit to Windows - it didn’t make direct use of Win32.
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neurostimulant 2236 days ago
Wow this is interesting! Does that means technically we could have any OSX app compiled for windows while still retaining OSX-like appearance? Did Apple ever released this AppKit windows port for others to use? Does apple still maintaining the port for MacOS as well or did it die along with Safari for windows?
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alwillis 2236 days ago
Before NeXT was acquired by Apple, they had OpenSTEP running on top of Windows. Back in the day, you could run a NeXTSTEP app on NeXT hardware, Sun hardware as well as x86: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenStep#OPENSTEP_Enterprisee
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selectodude 2236 days ago
It was originally ported for and is still used in iTunes.
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saagarjha 2236 days ago
iTunes uses CoreFoundation but it kinda barely uses AppKit even on macOS.
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_ZeD_ 2236 days ago
Please do no try to make osx-like appearance on Windows. It's too alien
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saagarjha 2236 days ago
Safari buttons on macOS are native unless you style them in a way that causes their font or size to change.
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