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GNOME 2.24 roadmap released

GNOME 2.24 roadmap released

Posted Apr 29, 2008 18:46 UTC (Tue) by ami.ganguli (guest, #9613)
Parent article: GNOME 2.24 roadmap released

Any idea why the WebKit migration?

I guess it might be nice to have easy access to a Safari-like rending engine to test against. 


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GNOME 2.24 roadmap released

Posted Apr 29, 2008 18:54 UTC (Tue) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link]

WebKit is just easier to integrate, since it's designed to be embedded and Gecko really is not
designed for embedding.  There was a long article on the topic here at LWN recently.

Why the webkit migration

Posted Apr 29, 2008 18:57 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

See WebKit rising, published here at the beginning of this month.

Why the webkit migration

Posted Apr 30, 2008 5:48 UTC (Wed) by ami.ganguli (guest, #9613) [Link]

Thanks.  Also read the announcement of it that was linked from the article.  

Interesting stuff.

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