Brendon Walsh
Valve has officially announced Steam and Valve’s games will be released for the Mac in April. And in the midst of Apple fanboys running around and shouting “in your face!” to PC gamers in response to the age old PC gaming argument, I was actually doing some critical analysis of what this all means.
Webkit
There are a few major shifts in Steam technology required to make a native client on a Mac. One of those is Webkit support since Internet Explorer’s rendering engine on the Mac hasn’t been updated since version 5. Webkit, for those unaware, is the same rendering engine used in both Safari and Google Chrome. This is a major bonus for both the Mac and Windows gamers out there. We’ll finally have a decent browser experience within the Steam client. Very exciting stuff.