Does that mean Apple is finally giving back to it's new /roots/?
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-510813.html Webkit wouldn't need to be ported back to Linux if Apple actually played nice and gave back to the KHTML source. Instead they forked it in secret, made a full year's worth of code changes, then threw the K Desktop project an obscenely large monolithic patch, which contained so many code changes, that combined with the fact that Konqueror/KHTML had been in parallel development for that year, added up to make the code essentially worthless, after picking through the whole mess, they managed to incorporate a few significant patches back into KHTML, but nothing to bring it up to where Apple's Webkit is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit Don't spread FUD. The people who are working on Qt WebKit include Lars Knoll (the *creator* of KHTML) and Zack Rusin (the one who made the blog post about Apple's bad policies). Also if you read the Ars Technica article, it said that some of the features from KHTML need to be ported to WebKit before even thinking of a merger. That said, I believe that Apple may have been forced to play nice after those lamentations, as they are number one at lock-in, even better than Microsoft. WebKit was originally derived by Apple Inc. from the Konqueror browser’s KHTML software library for use as the engine of Mac OS X’s Safari web browser and has now been further developed by individuals from the KDE project, Apple Inc., Nokia, Google, Bitstream, Torch Mobile and others.[2] WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that's used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. WebKit's HTML and JavaScript code began as a branch of the KHTML and KJS libraries from KDE. This website is also the home of S60's S60 WebKit development. http://webkit.org/ WebKit, the open-source project behind Apple's Safari browser, is a pretty obscure name to ordinary folks. And perhaps Apple wants to keep it that way, judging by Apple's May 18 WebKit trademark application. WebKit got its start from the open-source KHTML engine for the KDE project's Konqueror browser. (KDE is a user interface software that puts a nicer graphical face on Linux.) Apple brought the project to a wider audience with the Safari browser for Mac OS X, and now Google is doing the same with its Chrome and Android browsers, both also based on WebKit. Apple files for WebKit browser trademark http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20006129-264.html Actually, they have a very short history, and a contentious one at that. When they forked webkit from KHTML, there was a lot of bickering back and forth. It took a long time for Apple to release their changes. They had to be pushed. And Darwin is just yet another variant of BSD on Mach. Others had done it before Apple. http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20006129-264.html http://webkit.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebKit _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
