On 2011/07/03 12:51 (GMT-0700) Roger Luedecke composed:
There has been a lot of hubbub regarding the default browser. Firefox doesn't integrate completely with KDE, but renders best. Rekonq integrates fully, but isn't as good at rendering. For Mac OSX there is the Camino browseer which is essentialy Firefox built in the Cocoa framework so it integrates fully... what possibility is there for adapting Camino or its concept anyway to create a KDEcentric Gecko based browser?
There used to be attempts to build Gecko on top of QT. Whatever happened I don't know. Maybe there's some effort still going there, but nothing was ever released. I suspect Mozilla's addon system may be a big obstacle to KDE integration. Konqueror's KHTML engine is marginally different from WebKit, which was originally derived from KHTML. Rekonq is built on WebKit. Most WebKit features get backported to KHTML. So, there's no compelling reason for KDE to abandon Konq as default browser. And for those KDE users who like an accurate environment, Konq is the only browser left that can by default produce accuracy, making switching to anything else undesirable. OTOH, Camino is just a Mac-centric UI built on top of Gecko rv1.9.0.x at latest, which is what Firefox 3.0.x was built on, and no longer supported. Camino gets the most important security patches backported every now & then, but no new features as long as it stays stuck on Gecko rv1.9. Meanwhile, Firefox has progressed from rv1.9.0 (FF3.0) to rv1.9.1 (FF3.5) to rv1.9.2 (FF3.6) to rv2.0 (FF4) and now in FF5 it's at rv5.0. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org