From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mcuxr-0005n4-2i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:41:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84006E0571; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:41:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpout.karoo.kcom.com (smtpout.karoo.kcom.com [212.50.160.34]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 467EBE0571 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:41:01 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.43,393,1246834800"; d="scan'208";a="125258502" Received: from unknown (HELO compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org) ([213.152.39.90]) by smtpout.karoo.kcom.com with ESMTP; 17 Aug 2009 06:41:00 +0100 Received: from [192.168.1.71] (unknown [192.168.1.71]) by compaq.stroller.uk.eu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AB47137BDF for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:40:58 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <4438EF53-D5FF-484B-950D-836128C95F48@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> From: Stroller To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200908162236.56089.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problems with the web browsers Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:40:56 +0100 References: <1250440812.7063.28.camel@mdel> <200908162001.47872.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <200908162236.56089.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Archives-Salt: 3826edc9-22a3-4803-9ed2-8315a2cb3c97 X-Archives-Hash: 5d61bd44bc134e7b23db1fbf61b3b5e7 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 ) Stroller.