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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by D Kite on Tuesday 11/Mar/2008, @04:19
This is the strangest situation I have ever seen in a community project.

Someone demonstrably hostile to our interests has a neat shiny thing and we shun a community based project for one controlled by interests at best undefined (Nokia) to allow loading third party widgets into a single process user interface.

Derek
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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by S. on Tuesday 11/Mar/2008, @06:49
> interests at best undefined (Nokia)

and for the goals, it suffice to read the announcement at http://trolltech.com/webkit/webkit-announce to get a glimpse of the new corporate focus:

"Announcing the Qt WebKit Integration

Trolltech's Qt WebKit Integration brings Web 2.0 services to *mobile phones*
Helps *mobile operators* and *handset manufacturers* enrich *phone* applications with live web content such as online maps, music stores and instant messaging" (emphasis mine)

Quick, what is the missing keyword in this announcement? ;-(
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  • Re: webkit in konqueror!
    by D Kite on Tuesday 11/Mar/2008, @08:05
    Nokia worked on Webkit long before Trolltech was involved in it. Long before Apple 'opened up' development to the free software developers that created the original codebase.

    Nokia's interests towards KDE are undefined.

    Derek
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Yes! It is silly!
by anon on Wednesday 12/Mar/2008, @19:23
Unfortunately, there are some in the KDE-world who have decided for some arbitrary reason that a beta QtWebKit port is somehow better than what we already have. I say arbitrary, because they haven't done development work on either one.

And also unfortunately, they are very good at propaganda.

Users lose.
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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by MsmiysOtaru on Thursday 13/Mar/2008, @13:22
Put that way it really does sound outlandish. Unbelievable in fact.
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