In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roland wrote: > Hello, > if I wanted to join a browser programming team now, where should I go? To > Mozilla.org or KDE(Konqueror), or maybe another open source browser? > Sometimes I think I would like to contribute but I don't know if I will > have the time.
This is a good question. The biggest problem with joining the project, at present, is that there is very little written documentation, of code or otherwise. Most people learn by looking at patches for bugs in the area they're interested in, or talking with the developers on IRC :-) However, Mozilla also has a strong QA component; triaging bugs on Bugzilla, developing testcases, etc., is an important part of the project and an easy way for people to get started. As far as a direct Konqueror-to-Mozilla comparison, it's really a battle of the two rendering engines (KHTML vs Gecko), since both can actually be used in Konqueror, I believe. Gecko has (as far as I know) a bigger footprint/takes more memory than KHTML, but it also has incredible standards support. (Take a look at what KHTML does to http://www.alistapart.com/, for instance). I think Gecko is more exciting because there's work being done to support things that other browsers Just Don't Do, like DOM 2 Traversal & Range, and other nifty features. -- Chris Hoess
