its been done. One of the Netscape browsers did the trident and gecko rendering engines thing--and it failed.
On Oct 4, 3:53 pm, Kirk M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Excuse me for chiming in here but whoa...what a novel idea; a browser > that can shift rendering engines on the fly or at least with a single > restart. The closest thing I've ever seen to this concept is the IE Tab > extension for Firefox where it basically wraps a Firefox Tab with the > Firefox GUI (chrome) around whatever version of IE you have on board. > For all intensive purposes, it's just IE (all options, functions and > features) with a Firefox UI. However, as a remarkable achievement as > this extension is, it doesn't quite qualify as Firefox shifting > rendering engines to IE's Trident but rather wrapping Firefox's chrome > around an IE process within a tab. > > Just brainstorming here...something like the above /might/ be possible; > ie: wrapping Chrome's UI around a Firefox (Gecko), Internet Explorer > (Trident) or Opera (Presto) process much like the above IE Tab extension > does for Firefox but you'd have to have those two non-IE browsers > actually installed in order for this to happen. What you would > ultimately end up with is a single interface for all 3 browsers (but > only within a Windows environment since IE is hardly available in OSX or > a Linux distro). > > Not the same thing as you're saying (I believe or is it?) but it seems > to me that the Chrome Developers would literally have to have these > different rendering engines installed into Chrome (except IE of course > which would eliminate the Trident rendering engine for website > developers using Macs and Linux boxes) and then rewrite the entire > browser once for each different rendering engine utilized and > incorporate some method for the user to invoke each "version" when they > wish to shift engines with, at most, a browser restart. > > Now if you're thinking of just utilizing Chrome as a single interface > for IE, Opera and Firefox and hence their respective rendering engines > within a Windows environment, you might get the developers to think > about it but if you're running along the lines of actually incorporating > these different rendering engines as part of Chrome itself, I really > don't think you'll have much luck (man, that would make for one huge > browser). Besides the obvious problems such as the Presto and Trident > engines being "closed source" and not available for public use, it's not > the rendering engine that makes or breaks a website...it's how a given > rendering engine is utilized within the browser that makes the difference. > > Still, what a unique idea. > > On 10/4/2008 2:29 PM, gabydewilde wrote: > > > On Sep 30, 5:28 pm, Darkflame<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> Wait...your complaining that chrome's javascript is too fast ?[snip] > > > On Sep 23, 8:52 pm, eleifsp<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> First, and I'm not trying to be mean, but why are you using Javascript > >> for an animation .[snip] > > > Do I seriously have to explain what an example is? whaaaaaa?????? > > > "A problem or exercise used to __illustrate__ a principle or method." > >http://www.answers.com/example > > > Some people tend to get the example confused and pretend it to be the > > actual subject. My website is not the only website on the internet. > > > I have to test my website in other RENDERING ENGINES. And each > > RENDERING ENGINE has it's own features. Some websites do not work in > > other RENDERING ENGINES. Most RENDERING ENGINES can be embeded into > > application. > > > This is hard to understand???? Why is that? It seems so simple? > > > Here, perhaps I'm doing something wrong and this explanation is better > > for you: > > >http://groups.google.com/group/google-chrome-help-suggestions/browse_... > > > Good luck, --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
