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"Dependent on" ???

Posted Feb 27, 2007 20:34 UTC (Tue) by oak (subscriber, #2786)
In reply to: "Dependent on" ??? by proski
Parent article: Mitchell Baker and the Firefox Paradox (Inc)

You mean something like: http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/ ?

(according to site, released open source October 19th, 2004)


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"Dependent on" ???

Posted Feb 27, 2007 21:06 UTC (Tue) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

No, I mean a browser that uses more than just the rendering engine from Konqueror. Also, the choice of gtk+ doesn't seem very wise to me. I'm not aware or any large collaborative cross-platform project using gtk+. Whether we consider gaim or Evolution or gimp, the Windows port is always an effort of one or two developers. That won't work for a competitive browser. Using gtk+ also means that other Konqueror code just cannot be used, and it would likely discourage Konqueror developers from contributing.

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