[gentoo-user] [OT] Khtml Vs WebKit for Konqueror

[gentoo-user] [OT] Khtml Vs WebKit for Konqueror

[Mick]

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Hi All,

The default Konqueror installation uses Khmtl as its rendering engine.  This 
makes it slower than most other browsers out there.  Is khtml going to get 
better and gradually adopt the WebKit developments, or if I would rather have 
WebKit performance should I switch Konqueror's engine to WebKit?

What rendering engine do you run in Konqueror?
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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Khtml Vs WebKit for Konqueror

[Florian Philipp]

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Am 03.07.2011 15:19, schrieb Mick:
> Hi All,
> 
> The default Konqueror installation uses Khmtl as its rendering engine.  This 
> makes it slower than most other browsers out there.  Is khtml going to get 
> better and gradually adopt the WebKit developments, or if I would rather have 
> WebKit performance should I switch Konqueror's engine to WebKit?
> 
> What rendering engine do you run in Konqueror?

The situation with Webkit and KHTML is ... difficult. The type of Webkit
engine you use in Chrome is different from what you use in Safari and so
on. Everyone forks it, adapts it into his eco-system and adds features.
Some are later merged by other, others not.

I guess we will not see a merge of kthmlpart with kwebkitpart in the
near future but a common influx from both sides: kwebkitpart will get
better integration, khtmlpart (or qt-webkit) will get better
performance. In the mean time, you might be interested in this ticket:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241978

Regards,
Florian Philipp


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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Khtml Vs WebKit for Konqueror

[Mick]

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On Sunday 03 Jul 2011 22:52:00 Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 03.07.2011 15:19, schrieb Mick:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > The default Konqueror installation uses Khmtl as its rendering engine. 
> > This makes it slower than most other browsers out there.  Is khtml going
> > to get better and gradually adopt the WebKit developments, or if I would
> > rather have WebKit performance should I switch Konqueror's engine to
> > WebKit?
> > 
> > What rendering engine do you run in Konqueror?
> 
> The situation with Webkit and KHTML is ... difficult. The type of Webkit
> engine you use in Chrome is different from what you use in Safari and so
> on. Everyone forks it, adapts it into his eco-system and adds features.
> Some are later merged by other, others not.
> 
> I guess we will not see a merge of kthmlpart with kwebkitpart in the
> near future but a common influx from both sides: kwebkitpart will get
> better integration, khtmlpart (or qt-webkit) will get better
> performance. In the mean time, you might be interested in this ticket:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=241978

Thanks Florian, I wonder if I should just switch to Chromium for now, until 
the Khtml/WebKit thing plays out.
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Regards,
Mick

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