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Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port?
by Steven Fisher on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @16:36
Actually, Safari also uses Qt. Not for it's main interface, but for rendering the parts of its interface introduced by HTML.
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Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port?
by Ranger Rick on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @19:38
Actually, Apple made a wrapper library that emulates Qt string types using native types and such without having to use Qt. KHTML doesn't really have any GUI code in it in the first place.
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Re: how about native Cocoa KDE port?
by Tanner Lovelace on Friday 02/Jan/2004, @20:50
Safari does *not* use Qt at all. This is what it uses:

otool -L Safari
Safari:
/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A/Cocoa (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 9.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Carbon (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 128.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/AddressBook.framework/Versions/A/AddressBook (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 300.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 19.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Security.framework/Versions/A/Security (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 163.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 71.0.0)

Since I was curious, I also checked WebKit

otool -L WebKit
WebKit:
/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/WebKit (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 19.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Carbon (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 128.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A/Cocoa (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 9.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Versions/A/JavaScriptCore (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.framework/Versions/A/WebCore (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/C/Foundation (compatibility version 300.0.0, current version 500.1.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 71.0.0)

And, finally I checked WebCore

otool -L WebCore
WebCore:
/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/WebCore.framework/Versions/A/WebCore (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/ApplicationServices (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 19.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Carbon.framework/Versions/A/Carbon (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 128.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/Cocoa.framework/Versions/A/Cocoa (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 9.0.0)
/System/Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/JavaScriptCore.framework/Versions/A/JavaScriptCore (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 71.0.0)

Those are the most likely places for it to be linking to Qt, if it used it, and as you can see, it doesn't use Qt at all. It does, however, use Cocoa and Carbon, which are the native Mac libraries.
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