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UserLinux Moves Forward
UserLinux Moves Forward
Posted Feb 7, 2004 12:57 UTC (Sat) by oak (subscriber, #2786)In reply to: UserLinux Moves Forward by alonso
Parent article: UserLinux Moves Forward
QT:
The reason why those companies use Qt for their products instead of Gtk is that Qt itself is a *product*, unlike Gtk. Gtk is a project.
What I mean by product is that you can buy / get one single package which includes the libraries, integrated documentation, integrated development environment, support etc.
KDE:
Those companies are using Qt, not KDE. KDE is not a product for which one can buy an exclusive licence, it's only available under GPL license. KPart is a proprietary method whereas Gnome uses the CORBA standard.
KHTML:
KHTML and Mozilla (Gecko) are the only alternatives as full Open Source browser HTML engines and neither is a part of Qt nor Gtk. As to the reason why Apple chose KHTML over Mozilla, I don't know. :-)
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UserLinux Moves Forward
Posted Feb 7, 2004 14:57 UTC (Sat) by primorec (guest, #2740) [Link]
As to the reason why Apple chose KHTML over Mozilla, I don't know. :-)speed and size
UserLinux Moves Forward
Posted Feb 9, 2004 0:00 UTC (Mon) by lacostej (subscriber, #2760) [Link]
>> As to the reason why Apple chose KHTML over Mozilla, I don't know. :-)> speed and size
code size of the KHTML engine was 10% of Gecko's. Idel for maintenance. Easier to start with.