Sounds cool, but does this smell like StarOffice & Sun, to anyone else?? WebKit is good, though -- just wondering whether this is really a case of open source benefiting from proprietary code, or vice versa...
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:14 AM, marbux <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
