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Re: KHTML as a Qt Widget!
by paul on Monday 02/Jul/2007, @18:32

> My WebKit is 3MB

in its bz2-compressed archive? Yes, whatever.

you know, you can spin it all the way, cripple your build into uselessness and remove every feature there exist a switch for, that won't change the simple and unavoidable fact that a great deal of WebKit is about reimplementing Qt.

Oh wait, you did not denied that anyway.

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Re: KHTML as a Qt Widget!
by illissius on Wednesday 04/Jul/2007, @02:46

WebKit: 15MB
Average hard drive: 100000MB

I think we'll cope. The other risks and rewards of WebKit are of a much higher order of significance than a mere 15MB. And much of this code reimplementing Qt which you take exception with is a requirement for WebKit's wide portability -- how else could Apple use it in their Cocoa-based Safari browser, and at the same time, KDE in their Qt-based applications? There are GTK implementations, as well. This portability has a very concrete and significant benefit: web developers are far more likely to test and optimise their code for rendering engines with higher marketshares.

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