Hi,
I'd just like to say first off that I love Mozilla. I think it a great
browser and I use it or browsers based on it (Netscape/Galleon) all the time.
I also think that Konqueror is a great browser and I have gotten to know it
allot better since I started using KDE 3 as my main desktop on one of my
machines.
A few days ago Slashdot reported that Apple had come out with its own web
browser for MacOS X. At that point in time that was all I knew about it. I
think that is a great thing. It always pissed me off that MacOSX came
preloaded with IE just like Windows. I like to see competition in the browser
market like the good old days of Netscape/Mosaic (IE).
Then a friend of mine told me that Apples new browser was based on the
Knoqueror engine and that Apple had improved the engine and submitted some of
its code back to the KDE project. I think this is good on a number of fronts.
First of all I think it gives the Konqueror browser legitimacy. And trust me
this is needed in the browser market. I myself was a little scepticle about
site supporting Konqueror and the fact that the KDE project seemed to do in a
very short amount of time what the Mozilla project took 5 years to do. The
fact that a large corporation like Apple likes the browser enough to make it
the base of its first browser in a market such as this one shows just how good
a job the KDE project has done with Konqueror.
I am also glad to see a large company like Apple supporting open source at
least to some extent. Again I am also glad to see that Apple is trying to get
rid of IE as its standared browser. I just have one question: how much of
Apple does MS actually own and how much of a say do they have in what goes on
in the company?
Anyways sorry for the long reply, and congrads to the Konqureror team,
Jesse
Quoting "Aaron J. Seigo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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> hi all..
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> now that the safari cat is out of the bag, the folks on the apple team are
> talking quite a bit about it, especially in their personal blogs...
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> there was great bruhaha about their choice to not go with mozilla's gecko
> engine. here's a good summary on the reasoning behind their decision right
> from the horses mouth, so to speak:
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> http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=hyatt_weblog&itemid=5506
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> i think there are great lessons to be learned by all who write software or
> design anything remotely complex (software or not). for all projects that go
>
> the mozilla route, they should read the above over and over until they
figure
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> it out ...
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> it's great to see how open the apple devels are being when it comes to
things
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> like answering questions, fielding bug reports and working w/other khtml
> hackers.
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> Aaron J. Seigo
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> "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
> - Albert Einstein
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