The Design and Implementation of laffer1

I've been experimenting with different frontends for Webkit.  Midori is a work in progress and found to be very limiting.  You can't download files yet.  Today, I started experimenting with Epiphany built on Webkit.  It is very promising.  It passes acid2 and most of acid3.  Newer versions supposedly pass acid3. 

However, it dies creating blog entries on just journal.  I'll have to try a newer version of Webkit. It's still fun to play with as most sites render better thant they do with Konquerer.

 I've been using Google for several years.  I'm thinking about trying some alternate search engines.  I just realized you can't easily change the default search in safari like you can in Firefox and even IE.  

Apple doesn't seem to have a preference for it and cuil's FAQ incorrectly suggests there is a setting.  I can't find it.  A search on cuil returned one useful hit, but the site was pulled down.  They also don't seem to cache pages like Google.  I decided to use Google to look for an answer.  There are two options.

1. Use http://www.inquisitorx.com/ to configure your search.  I don't know if they log searches or use any form of spyware.  They probably don't, but I consider search very important and don't want to trust this.
2. Some people have reported success hex editing safari.  I could do this, but I don't know what would happen when software update tries to push/install a new version.  Best case, I'd have to do this every time Safari gets a security update.

Oddly enough, it's easier to change on the iPhone where apple could lock users in.  I may stick with Google, but now I feel like I'm forced to.  It's sad as I like Safari in my any other ways and have even been using WebKit in BSD for browsing.