Talk:Swift (web browser)

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[edit] Swift site down?

It appears the Swift site is down. Should this be noted after the link to the site (in external links)? --Neko18 19:17, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Swift is back

0.3 is in the works. Adobe has begun updating webkit for their Apollo project, which allows swift to continue. --richiemcintosh 21:40, 28 May 2007 (EST)

[edit] No HTML ??

"[...] are known not to work in Swift and they are [...] HTML [...]" ??? - Erik Baas 13:14, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Completely disappear from the web! No site, no forums, nothing... It's not a future product, it's vaporware. 82.155.198.173 20:40, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Downloads are still available. By definition, this is not vaporware. Abandoned project, perhaps. -- int19h 12:50, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
Not Vapourware. Sites are now again up and running.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.202.65.85 (talk • contribs)

[edit] Irrelevance of Swift

Swift has had no major work since a month or two after it was announced on the internet. It is a failed project, and is certainly not important enough to deserve a page on wikipedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.101.113.52 (talk • contribs)

No it isn't, as it is the first KHTML based browser for Windows. It deserves to be recognised for that reason. It is quite important that it is recognised as the first browser to use the powerful KHTML rendering engine.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.202.65.85 (talk • contribs)
That's untrue. WebKit and KHTML are very different beasts, and conflating the two shows your lack of understanding of the subject. If it were the first WebKit-based browser then Windows then your argument may have some merit, but it wasn't. The first WebKit-based browser for Windows was Spinneret. Take a look at http://www.aeroxp.org/board/lofiversion/index.php?t4845.html. Zimmy is the guy that started development on Swift, and the thread makes reference to Spinneret as the browser included with the WebKit source. Swift was an early WebKit-based browser for Windows, but it's premature release, and lack of stability and further development strongly suggests it is not of any long-term relevance. Spinneret is still in the WebKit source but remains unmaintained, much like the rest of the Windows support in WebKit. This is the precise reason that Swift is irrelevant. It is simply a reinvention of the Spinneret sample project that has gone out of its way to take credit where it is not due. Swift relies on working WebKit-for-Windows but the Swift developers have not stepped up to ensure that such a thing exists. Swift is a curiosity and not of any long-term importance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.101.113.52 (talk • contribs)

[edit] It aint dead yet!

Swift is still been developed, though the site is down, everything on the site was lost.

--Budgies rule 10:28, 10 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Safari

Now Safari is on Windows too, so I think Swift's developers will give up. -- 200.226.84.218 04:37, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

What contribution does this have to the article? This has nothing to do with the article. The dev's have NOT given up, as I have direct connection to the creator himself. —TRAiNER4 (talk • contrib) 06:02, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
I will host a download of Swift soon, OK? --Budgies rule 09:40, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
Wait, there is no need, the site is back. --Budgies rule 09:49, 9 August 2007 (UTC)