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Re: questions and musings
by Mike Fedyk on Saturday 11/Sep/2004, @23:56
Getting geko to be the standard for open source layout engines helps everyone since you get more eyes looking at a code base instead of their own code.

This just looks like further movement in the goal to merge geko and khtml.

More developers on geko (whether they use gtk and the suite (mozilla) or firefox) is a very good thing(tm).
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Re: questions and musings
by David on Sunday 12/Sep/2004, @09:23
Unfortunately Gecko is not better. Why on Earth do you think Apple chose KHTML (and they worked on Netscape/Mozilla!)
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  • Re: questions and musings
    by Anonymous on Sunday 12/Sep/2004, @11:19
    Because it is easier to maintain and faster (since it wasn't intended to draw itself, and because accuracy wasn't a top preference).
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  • Re: questions and musings
    by oliv on Monday 13/Sep/2004, @00:20
    In all the CSS support (and correctness) tests I have seen, Gecko is the best. No doubt KHTML is getting close, but I have no good reason to take your assertion as a truth.

    Apple chose Gecko because of size and cleaner-coding of KHTML. This is not an issue for the end-user (Gecko browsers such as Firefox are under the 10 MiB). What the end-user wants is good rendering.
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    • Re: questions and musings
      by David on Monday 13/Sep/2004, @13:19
      Which is why Apple chose it. Browse backwards and forward between a handful of pages to see the speed difference. Apple needed a rendering engine that gave them a selling point for Safari (rendering speed) that would get IE off Mac. They succeeded. If they didn't think it would render well, they would never ever have picked it over Gecko.
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      • Re: questions and musings
        by brockers on Tuesday 14/Sep/2004, @20:18
        I am sure for many people Gecko works better, but I have had some aweful luck lately. khtml seems to do a better job on many of the sites I visit. Great hack guys, but for now I will stick to khtml.

        Bobby
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