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Interview: Qt Comes to Mozilla and Firefox (KDE.News)
KDE.News has an interview with
Oleg Romaxa about porting Mozilla to Qt. "Developers from Nokia and
Mozilla have been working hard to port the Mozilla Platform and Firefox to
Qt and there are now some solid results available. An experimental build of
Firefox Qt is available, and you can download the sources from Mozilla's
mercurial repository. The plan is to merge the Qt branch into the central
Mozilla branch to make the port official. KDE Dot News spoke to developer
Oleg Romaxa from Nokia who came to Akademy 2008 from Finland."
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Interview: Qt Comes to Mozilla and Firefox (KDE.News) Posted Aug 14, 2008 1:18 UTC (Thu) by qg6te2 (guest, #52587) [Link] A nice contribution, but is this really worth the effort considering that the GTK-Qt engine does a very good job with a lot less code?
Interview: Qt Comes to Mozilla and Firefox (KDE.News) Posted Aug 14, 2008 21:26 UTC (Thu) by doodaddy (guest, #10649) [Link] I get a little lost with QT. I was interested in XUL which is Mozillas GUI engine. It can do a lot more than web browser GUIs and it can do it on many platforms. But does this mean that the QT license will apply and I will no longer be able to make a commercial interface without paying QT?
Interview: Qt Comes to Mozilla and Firefox (KDE.News) Posted Aug 15, 2008 8:23 UTC (Fri) by njs (subscriber, #40338) [Link] XUL needs another platform library underneath it to interface with the GUI -- it has one backend for working on windows, one backend for OSX, one backend for GTK+, and now one for Qt as well. Qt is basically an additional platform, that doesn't subtract from anything that already exists; you still won't need to buy a Qt license to use XUL-over-GTK+, for instance.
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