Got an email from Codeweavers about a new release. Don't recall what I did to wind up on their mailing list. But I thought I'd check out what was new on their site since the last time I visited. Ran across this interesting bit: a proof of concept port of the open source Chromium browser to Wine for Linux and the Mac. <http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/>. Packages available for several Linux distros.
Doubt that there's anyone on the list who didn't already know it, but just in case: Chromium is a Google open source project on which their proprietary Chrome browser is based. It's based in turn on the WebKit application framework, which traces back to a fork in the KDE KHTML code base begun by Apple. KDE developers are submitting patches for WebKit and there's speculation that WebKit will succeed KHTML. I'm not sure how certain that is. More about WebKit than you probably wanted to know here. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webkit>. Google is working on a native port of Chrome to Linux. There's also a port of Chromium but sounds like it's way far away from read-for-primetime. <http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructions>. Best regards, Paul -- Universal Interoperability Council <http:www.universal-interop-council.org> _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
