Nokia to acquire Trolltech [LWN.net]

Nokia to acquire Trolltech

Posted Jan 28, 2008 20:21 UTC (Mon) by HoserHead (subscriber, #828)
In reply to: Nokia to acquire Trolltech by drag
Parent article: Nokia to acquire Trolltech

I have two questions regarding Midori:

How is C-only a feature? Why would a user care what language his/her applications is
programmed in?

How is C-only possible? WebKit is written in C++.

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Nokia to acquire Trolltech

Posted Jan 28, 2008 20:37 UTC (Mon) by i3839 (subscriber, #31386) [Link]

It's using the Webkit version ported to GTK, WebkitGTK, and GTK is C.

Users should care in what language their software is written because if it's in a language
they don't know or like, they won't hack on it.

(And please no programming language flame war here, there are enough hooks to grab for the
bored and inclined. And no GTK versus Qt silliness either, thank you.)

Nokia to acquire Trolltech

Posted Jan 28, 2008 21:59 UTC (Mon) by HoserHead (subscriber, #828) [Link]

Sure, GTK is C-only, but WebKit (even WebKit-GTK; WebKit is written in C++, even if its widget
bindings are written in C) isn't. It seems silly to ignore a hugely important component of a
web browser in its description.

Nokia to acquire Trolltech

Posted Jan 28, 2008 23:34 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Well C/C++ then. Doesn't realy matter to me.'

There isn't any higher level languages like XUL, Python, Mono, or whatnot being added to the
mix, which was my point. Should be very lightweight and being GTK should work well in other
minimalist environments and XFCE.. no big Gnome or KDE dependancies required.

Nokia to acquire Trolltech

Posted Jan 30, 2008 20:33 UTC (Wed) by i3839 (subscriber, #31386) [Link]

I tried Midori out, and it uses much less memory than Firefox (half or less), but it's as slow
or slower, at least rendering and scrolling. It also doesn't render all pages correctly, so
all in all it has a long way to go.