Spontaneous Monotony

Well, not quite, but Swift is a Windows browser which uses Apple’s WebKit rendering engine (ie the bit of Safari that actually does the pages – the same way Firefox uses Gecko).

There have been some problems with the installer – apparently you need the Visual C++ 2005 runtime libraries installed (and, unlike the more well-known .NET Framework, not everyone does), but I haven’t had any such problems. This of course might be because I have Visual C++ Express Edition installed, I’d advise downloading the libraries if you aren’t sure.

As for how good it is, I’m afraid I haven’t had the chance to make any further assessments than ‘this site looks fine in it’ and ‘the UI is utter crap’. The latter of which I can forgive seeing as this is a first release.

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