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Der Schepp
Personal blog · schepp.dev/postswebprogramming
Der Schepp is a personal blog at schepp.dev about web and programming. Since 2019, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 13 times, most often “The Era of the Trident Engine”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Der Schepp's posts on running WebKit on Windows (via bare WebKit or Playwright) and on the end of the Internet Explorer Trident era. Commenters cite them as sources for WebKit and IE history.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Writing about front-end development
Most-linked posts?
- /posts/running-webkit-on-windows/5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-01-07
- The Era of the Trident Engine3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-25
- Dealing with Ads in 20202 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-12-02
What Hacker News says?
IE actually created many of the standards we take for granted like XMLHttpRequest. [1] It was the innovator for a long time until priorities changed and the IE team was disbanded leading to the stagnation. Microsoft definitely takes the blame in keeping it poor for so long but this situation is nothing like Safari which has refused to implement standards that already exist, as well as messing with others in unintuit…
Comment linking /posts/today-the-trident-era-ends/
on “Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid”Submitted The Era of the Trident Engine as a story · 415 points
HN discussion> How can I test my website on safari without owning Apple hardware? Arduously? Check this very surprising thing out: https://github.com/WebKitForWindows/WebKitRequirements/relea... This is how Playwright has a webkit engine. An old discussion: https://schepp.dev/posts/running-webkit-on-windows/ And this visual engine rendering compare tool leverages it: https://github.com/niutech/splitbrowser Separately, not sure i…
Comment linking /posts/running-webkit-on-windows/
on “Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA”Submitted Today, the Trident Era Ends (2020) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou might have some luck using Playwright and MiniBrowser for that https://schepp.dev/posts/running-webkit-on-windows/ If you are on Linux, you can use the Epiphany browser which also uses WebKit.
Comment linking /posts/running-webkit-on-windows/
on “Show HN: I'm 15 and building a live quiz app for classrooms: Quickz”Submitted Dealing with Ads in 2020 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionInternet Explorer had a native Data Grid with two-way data binding and much more. https://schepp.dev/posts/today-the-trident-era-ends/#data-gr...
Comment linking /posts/today-the-trident-era-ends/
on “Customizable HTML Select”Submitted Rethinking Find-in-Page Accessibility: Making Hidden Text Work for Everyone as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> there is no webkit browser on Windows WebKit does build on Windows, and it's possible to use bare WebKit: https://schepp.dev/posts/running-webkit-on-windows/
Comment linking /posts/running-webkit-on-windows/
on “Chrome 100”Submitted Today the Trident Era Ends: HTML Extensions Internet Explorer Supported as a story · 1 points
HN discussionNot impossible to compile WebKit for other platforms, but sounds hairy. https://schepp.dev/posts/running-webkit-on-windows/
Comment linking /posts/running-webkit-on-windows/
on “The baseline for web development in 2022”Submitted Dealing with Ads in 2020 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionhttps://schepp.dev/posts/running-webkit-on-windows/ (linked in the article) suggests that it wouldn’t be _too_ hard for someone to build a WebKit-based browser for Windows. The engine still builds on Windows; you’d need to patch in video codecs somehow, but otherwise everything works other than a handful of obscure fripperies.
Comment linking /posts/running-webkit-on-windows/
on “It's time for Apple to bring back Safari for Windows”
