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Steam UI Update Beta Drops IE Rendering For WebKit
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.
The other problem with mac games is that you can never play all the way through them because macs crash constantly and mysteriously for no apparent reason, giving the user no indication as to the fault. They simply restart in the blink of an eye and then pretend that everything's happy and pretty. And before you tell me it's not true, or that it's no longer true with MacOSX -- this has happened regularly on every Mac I've ever used, including the mac mini sitting on my desktop right now running OSX. Thank god it's not my everyday machine and I only have to use it for testing.
When did Konqueror stop using KHTML and start using Apple Incs bastardisation of KHTML?
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