Safari vs. Konqueror

How similar are they?

[encyclo]

I know that the OSX browser Safari is based on the KHTML rendering engine used by KDE's Konqueror, but does anyone have any experience on how similar / different they are? Are Safari's developments being fed back into KDE, and vice-versa?

My particular problem is that a new site I'm developing is attracting a significant Safari-using crowd. There's no way I'm going to buy a Mac just to test one browser, so can I just fire up Konqueror and test in that?

Thanks in advance!

[TGecho]

I don't have any first hand knowledge, but from what I understand Apple took the khtml core and enhanced it a bit before using it in Safari. So it would seem if something works in Konqueror it won't be too much for Safari, assuming they didn't introduce new rendering bugs. Unfortunetly that's not a very nice "if".

[encyclo]

Yes, it's a big "if". From what I understand, there has been some rapid and comprehensive development from Apple on Safari, particularly with the rendering engine and CSS compatibility, etc.

This is all good news if the work is filtering down to Konqueror, but I've not found any reference to say whether that's happening or not.

[tedster]

KDE 3.2 that released in Feb 2004 included updates to Konqueror that were derived from Safari:

ZDNet article [news.zdnet.co.uk]

[dcrombie]

The Safari team make the occasional mistake but generally things are moving in the right direction:

Safari Blog: Surfin' Safari [weblogs.mozillazine.org]

[R1chard]

Encyclo- you know about [danvine.com...] right? It can provide static Safari screens.

Anyway, yeah, I'd heard the traffic was two-ways as well. They both recently introduced accesskeys, for example.

I don't have much recent Mac Safari experience, so I've not been able to test thoroughly, but I'd expect most of it to be the same (barring occasional OS or font differences).