Steam UI Update Beta Drops IE Rendering For WebKit

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @10:58PM from the what-a-coincidence-with-battle.net-in-beta-too dept.

Citing massive growth in their user base ("25 million users, 1000+ games, 12 billion player minutes per month, and 75 billion Steam client minutes per month"), Valve unveiled a revamped UI for Steam on Tuesday, opening the beta test to anyone who wants to try it out. There are many changes, and an increased focus on social features: "Right from within your own game Library, you can now track which of your friends plays each game or invite them to play one with you. Before you've even bought a game, knowing whether your friends play it is one of the most useful pieces of information to have. So on the store homepage, there's a new listing of what your friends have bought or played lately." Tracking games and achievements have both gotten simpler, and Valve has dropped the Internet Explorer rendering engine in favor of WebKit. An enterprising user also found files that may indicate the existence of an OS X Steam client.

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Re:Fixes an interesting issue. by Anonymous Coward · 2010-02-25 02:00 · Score: -1, Flamebait

What's interesting about that, troll?
Steam (used to) rely on IE's rendering engine. Win7 was available without IE, therefore steam was broken on some versions of Win7.
That simple, eh?
Re:Why OSX? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-02-25 03:13 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Quit plugging your shitty blog in every fucking post you make. Your blog sucks, your reviews suck, YOU suck
Re:Why OSX? by Pojut · 2010-02-25 04:23 · Score: -1, Flamebait

But obviously not enough for you to devote your own time to tell me so ;-)
Have a nice day, coward!

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