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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by Sebastian Sauer on Sunday 09/Mar/2008, @18:49

See it that way; we have the opportunity to don't only have one very good webbrowser but two of them and both are greatly supported. One is full under our control, community-FOSS and has a rocking codebase while the other is mainly commercial orientated and provided to us. So, looks for me in any case like a win-win situation :)

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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by Beat Wolf on Monday 10/Mar/2008, @01:26

only that khtml will die, because people will choose webkit over khtml, and when there are no users, there are no bugreports, no devs etc.

I'm not saying this is realy a bad thing, just that it is going to happen.

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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by Zayed on Monday 10/Mar/2008, @02:37

You should define which people do you mean !!
I will stick with KHTML if it serves my needs

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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by Erunno on Monday 10/Mar/2008, @06:07

Probably the people that are under the impression that the websites supported by KHTML are a true subset of the sites supported by WebKit. In other words, you get all the sites supported by KHTML plus some additional which currently work under WebKit.

I cannot verify or falsify claims about KHTML's and WebKit's compatability since I don't use any of the so-called "Web 2.0" applications and the websites I visit regurarly work well with Konqueror. If I had to hazard a guess I'd say that some distributions shipping KDE will switch to WebKit as soon as they deem it stable hoping to get some compatibility problems people claim to have with KHTML out of the way (and thus easing support). So I doubt that the actual user's choice will play a significant role which of the two engines will be used in the future.

It doesn't also help KHTML's cause that some "other" developers are pushing WebKit hard either via code or by propaganda in the blogosphere.

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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by Erunno on Monday 10/Mar/2008, @07:00

Oops, that reply was intended for Zayed:

http://dot.kde.org/1205065133/1205072654/1205088902/1205089355/1205100860/1205102627/1205108027/1205113759/1205137589/1205141830/

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