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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problems with the web browsers
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:40:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4438EF53-D5FF-484B-950D-836128C95F48@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908162236.56089.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>


On 16 Aug 2009, at 22:36, Mick wrote:
>> ...
>> javascript support in konqueror sucks.
>>
>> For everything else it's actually OK. One of these days it will use  
>> webkit
>> as the backend and then things might improve. Until then, I'm  
>> afraid you
>> are SOL.
>
> Perhaps [O/T] but is webkit a fork of khtml, or was khtml stopped any
> development and webkit took over?


Webkit is a fork of KHTML (and KJS, KDE's JavaScript engine) but I get  
the impression that it has benefited from Apple's legion of paid &  
full time engineers.

The initial development by Apple was done stealthily, and they made  
significant changes (some of which were quite MacOS specific) so it  
was not possible to reintegrate their modifications. KHTML & Webkit  
retain separate codebases, then.

SquirrelFish seems interesting & relevant to this conversation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit
(also see <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML>)

Stroller.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-17  5:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-16 16:40 [gentoo-user] problems with the web browsers M Daniel R M
2009-08-16 16:49 ` Ward Poelmans
2009-08-17 21:29   ` M Daniel R M
2009-08-17 22:03     ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-08-16 17:09 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-08-17 21:44   ` M Daniel R M
2009-08-16 17:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-08-16 18:53   ` Philip Webb
2009-08-17 22:03   ` M Daniel R M
2009-08-16 18:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan McKinnon
2009-08-16 21:36   ` Mick
2009-08-17  5:40     ` Stroller [this message]
2009-08-17 22:15   ` M Daniel R M

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