I was thinking that I will start writing some articles about my daily experience using Linux. People that gets bored with the subject may explore another categories of this blog.

Webkit is the engine of Apple’s navigator Safari and it’s well known to render the pages quite strictly. So I though that it’s going to be a good test for some of my pages. The problem is that I don’t have Mac, and I don’t use windows, so I Googled for a way to install it in Linux-
By the way, if you use KDE, you already have Konkeror that I think is built with the same engine Safari uses so don’t loose time compiling this!

The steps to build it (via kryogenix)

1. svn checkout http://svn.webkit.org/repository/webkit/trunk WebKit
   That will give you a folder called WebKit. You’ll now need a few requirements; the key one is Qt4. On Ubuntu get this like so:
   sudo aptitude install libqt4-dev
2. Now build your Qt-based WebKit browser:
   QTDIR=/usr/share/qt4/ WebKit/WebKitTools/Scripts/build-webkit
When I tried to do this I got: ERROR: flex, bison, gperf missing but required to build WebKit.
   So I searched and installed the required libraries and then executed again the build line:
   sudo apt-get install flex gperf bison
3. Finally, run it:
   WebKit/WebKitBuild/Release/WebKitQt/QtLauncher/QtLauncher about:blankPeople using another operative systems can get it here: http://nightly.webkit.org/

Other browser alternatives:

Opera

Lynx
Under debian/Ubuntu install it with their package manager: apt-get install lynx
Even that this text based browser may seem too geeky for standard navigation I use it for clients to know what text is going to grab Google for their SERP Snippets.