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Fujii Hironori
Personal blog · fujii.github.ioprogramminghardware
Fujii Hironori's personal blog at fujii.github.io covers programming and hardware. Since 2015, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-07-04, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked for posts on running WebKit, the engine behind Safari, on Windows, including a 2019 post on WebKit on Windows. Commenters cite it as a source on browser engine ports.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Fujii Hironori’s Random Notes
Most-linked posts?
- /2019/07/05/webkit-on-windows/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-02-10
What Hacker News says?
It's important to notice that he's switching to a desktop running linux. Running linux on laptops is still a gamble. Sometimes things work great. Sometimes you spend months trying to fix basic stuff like screen brightness[1][2] on hardware certified by Ubuntu.[3] I think there's a market for a linux distro that targets a limited set of premium hardware. I'd gladly pay money for an OS that worked out of the box on an…
Comment linking /2014/03/02/thinkpad-edge-e145-backlight-brightness-issue/
on “Why I Quit OS X – Geoff Wozniak”I hope I don't come across too harsh in my criticism here, but this is in my wheelhouse and I like to keep tabs on the privacy browser market in comparison to Waterfox. > A bold technical choice: WebKit, not another Chromium clone I don't find this a bold technical choice at all for a macOS only browser? I think this would be more impressive if it was Windows as well, as back (maybe ~5 or so years ago) when I was in…
Comment linking /2019/07/05/webkit-on-windows/
on “Orion 1.0”A few, not general purpose but dev builds basically: https://fujii.github.io/2019/07/05/webkit-on-windows/
Comment linking /2019/07/05/webkit-on-windows/
on “Safari: Point to specific bugs and missing support that frustrate you”There are multiple ports of WebKit (the browser engine of Safari) on Windows [1], but two of them are still more or less maintained: * AppleWin, Apple's port of WebKit for use in iTunes for Windows. I'm pretty sure it depends on DLLs that reimplements Cocoa APIs on Windows, those DLLs are shipped with iTunes. (edit: one can download the support libraries here [2]) * WinCairo, maintained by Sony and uses Cairo for re…
Comment linking /2019/07/05/webkit-on-windows/
on “The Time when Safari was released to the world”