TenFourKit

WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications.

A very nice team of people have started compiling Webkit for Mac OS X Tiger. What this means is that while Tiger's newest version of Safari (4.1.3, dated 18 November 2010) will never be upgraded, Safari 4.1.3's Webkit engine can be the latest version. I'm sitting here on an eleven year old dual-USB iBook G3 which runs Tiger fairly well. I may have an old browser, but I have the latest browser engine.

You can pick up the latest Webkit for Tiger here. Once installed, it will appear in your Applications folder under the name "Webkit", with a Safari icon. I don't know exactly how it works, but it feels a little snappier. And anything that makes an iBook feel snappier is a Good Thing.

Well done, TenFourKit people!