On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Rony <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday 06 January 2011 07:13 PM, Shamit Verma wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Rony<[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> So it boils down to the fact that if a browser is willing to give up its > >> identity and let the individual hardware makers use its code but add > >> their own label to it then it will be more popular. > >> > >> > > Don't get that... You are referring to WebKit or Opera? > > > > > WebKit. It lost its identity but gained popularity. > > Don't agree with that. Two reasons :
1. WebKit is Open Source (LGPG and BSD). That is primary reason for adoption by everyone. 2. WebKit is clearly identified in User Agent strings (E.g. Nokia6303classic/2.0 (06.21) Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/420+) And despite LGPL+BSD, every major company (Apple/Google/Nokia) commits into codebase. Since its in their own interest. E.g. if Nokia fixes a JavaScript bug and does not commit, it will have to re-fix it every-time they sync code from main repository. -Shamit -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
