[Cialug] gphone software preview

[Bryan Baker]

a snip from the Wikipedia article on KHTML:

"Apple has since released changes of the sourcecode of its KHTML fork  
in a CVS repository. [4] Since the transfer of the sourcecode into a  
public CVS repository, Apple and KHTML developers have had increasing  
collaboration. Many of the top KHTML developers have become reviewers  
and submitters for Apple's WebKit SVN repository. Because the WebKit  
and KHTML source differ so greatly at this date, some key KHTML  
developers are looking to backport the WebKit source to KDE through a  
project codenamed 'Unity' [5].

As of June 2007, it has been revealed that Qt-WebKit probably will  
replace KHTML in KDE 4.1. Qt-WebKit is to be included in the upcoming  
Qt 4.4 release[6]."

So, currently Apple is playing about as nice as can be expected,  
having a public SVN, and it looks like KDE 4.1 will replace KHTML w/  
Qt-webkit.

The biggest problem in the first place was that Apple was working on  
the library a full year before they could go public, and of course  
they were trying to get something shipping, and not really worrying  
about toes being stepped on, but as things have progressed it sounds  
like they brought quite a bit to the party after all. (ACID 2  
compliance iirc was one).


On Nov 20, 2007, at 11:09 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> On Nov 20, 2007 10:28 AM, Bryan Baker <ka_klick at mac.com> wrote:
> Did anyone else notice that they said they are using WebKit and touted
> it as the "standard"?
>
> I did catch that, but I justified it in my mind by saying that  
> there's really only one product in this market that's got wide- 
> spread acceptance, and that's the iPhone, causing webkit to be the  
> defacto standard. That could be a flawed line of thought though.
>
> If nothing else it looks like a big force for Safari/Konquorer browser
> share.
>
> Does Konq use webkit now? Last I checked it used khtml which was  
> different enough that I didn't feel comfortable calling them the  
> same thing. I'd heard talk, but the way I understood it, Apple  
> "contributed" the code back in such a mess that it was unusable.
> -- 
> Matthew Nuzum
> newz2000 on freenode _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug

--
Bryan "ka-klick" Baker
Singer/Songwriter
With 2 New CDs!!! See my website for details
kaklick_martin at mac.com
http://ka-klick.com