On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:34:07 +0200 "A.J. Venter" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:22 PM, Richard Stallman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I wonder, however, what's so special about this browser that you > > > took the premature decision to make it the default? > > > > > > IMO it is a bad decision to make a "foreign" (in the GUI/toolkit > > > sense) application the default -- if GNOME is the default desktop > > > for your distro, Epiphany is the only sane choice as it > > > integreates best with the desktop. Likewise for KDE & Konqeror. > > > This is a valid point - but definitely not to the point of religion as > you're taking it. The most integrated app should be used when the > available choices are functionally equivalent. At this stage, chromium > is by far the most advanced browser on the market. It's the first one > in years to actually do some real rethinking and innovation - ideas > like tabbed processes, vm'd scripting, and sandboxed plugins make for > a much faster (and far more importantly) a hugely more secure browser > than anything else out there. I found the way this paragraph started with "definitely not to the point of religion" and finished with an almost religious tone :) > But basically, the short answer is: what makes it so special is that > it's the first really innovative browser in a decade and a half, the > first attempt to redesign how browsers work to face the challenges of > the web as it is used today... it's so special, because it's the first > actual advancement in it's field since mosaic. This seems like an odd statement. You really think nothing new was done in 15 years before chromium arrived? > All that said, this debate is off-topic so we should probably stop > there. Which browser a distro ships or a user chooses is completely > irrelevant to this list - what is relevant to this list is only the > licensing of the potential choices, as that is what determines which > ones we should never even consider as potential candidates. not entirely, imo the list is also for supporting each other - via coordinatin and such things. Understanding why another distro chooses a browser helps others decide if they want to include it/spend extra time on it. thanks, kk > Ciao > A.J. > -- Karl Goetz, (Kamping_Kaiser / VK5FOSS) Debian contributor / gNewSense Maintainer http://www.kgoetz.id.au No, I won't join your social networking group
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