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Nokia to acquire Trolltech

Posted Jan 28, 2008 21:59 UTC (Mon) by joedrew (subscriber, #828)
In reply to: Nokia to acquire Trolltech by i3839
Parent article: Nokia to acquire Trolltech

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.

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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.