[zalew]

TLDR: for whatever reasons it was a very top-secret project, so they spoofed the user agent, the end.

[jmspring]

Sometimes the backstory makes for a fun read. Looking for the cliff notes version all the time makes life boring.

[donmelton]

Thank you. That was my whole reason for writing it. :)

[bitcartel]

What are your thoughts on the present and future for Safari? It appears Safari for Windows is all but dead, with no mention of it on Apple's website. Meanwhile Chrome's adoption has been stellar. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

[donmelton]

I'm not going to comment on the present and future of Safari and WebKit. I'm retired. I have no business doing that. And it would disrespect the fine people at Apple -- my friends -- who are still working on both.

[robmcm]

You are lucky no one changed their system clock for testing before launch!

Then again it doesn't seem Apple do that very often, cough Do not disturb cough ;)

[stock_toaster]

Well said.

Definitely a case where it wasn't the destination so much as the journey that was interesting. :)

[neumann_alfred]

Looking for the cliff notes version all the time makes life boring.

Not for me, I prefer doing stuff (like typing this inane comment right here) to hearing about trivial things others did. In this case, even the cliff's notes are kinda "meh".

[sbuk]

WebKit and Safari are hardly "trivial", are they.

*Edited for the benefit of Alfred.

[neumann_alfred]

WekKit also isn't Safari, is it. I was referring to the reasons to keep bespoke Safari "secret" and the ways to do so... as in, to the actual fucking article, not "Apple success porn" in general, or whatever "sensibilities" I might have offended here.

[glasshead969]

Safari is a subset of WebKit.

[sbuk]

Wow.

[sbuk]

Ok. I was responding to you rather arrogant assertion that Don's interesting article was "meh". I'd argue that neither WebKit or Safari are trivial. WebKit is arguably the biggest HTML renderer out there and a heck of a lot of people access the internet using Safari. It's fine that you didn't find it interesting, really, that's ok, just don't be a dick about it.

[gry]

The interesting story is Apple. We're hearing about it now.