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webkit in konqueror?
by sloppy bobby on Sunday 30/Mar/2008, @20:33

>> Soon we can all expect 100% compatibility, though, since WebKit, the Konqueror engine has been already fixed in Safari to pass the new Acid test.

This is going to make KHTML devs happy :)

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Re: webkit in konqueror?
by Andreas on Sunday 30/Mar/2008, @21:12

For those who are still confused: WebKit is a fork of KHTML and it isn't actually called KHTML anymore. There is occasional merging of changes, nowadays probably more WebKit->KHTML than the other way. There are simply so many people from different projects and companies working on WebKit that it has sorta kinda taken the lead.

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Re: webkit in konqueror?
by Zayed on Sunday 30/Mar/2008, @21:34

I don't think the webkit part will be ready for KDE 4.1. There is no interest from webkit developers to do that ( at least from what I can see in the weekly digests ). So yes we need to relay on our KHTML developer. Keep it up guys.

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Re: webkit in konqueror?
by fred on Sunday 30/Mar/2008, @22:02

KHTML is already very stable now and some developers are working in KHTML to add more features and squash bugs. Plus the addition that javascript bytecode interpreter for KJS is work in progress, I think Konqueror + KHTML will rock in KDE 4.1.

About webkit in KDE, I think it is still work in progress to create Webkit KPart for Konqueror, so it might be possible that someday we can change the rendering engine on-the-fly. (Although I still prefer a separate Webkit dedicated browser is created from scratch in Qt/KDE)

Merging those changes from Webkit to KHTML is always done by the developers, but merging two branches that already diverged for years is not that easy :)

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Re: webkit in konqueror?
by Level 1 on Thursday 03/Apr/2008, @11:21

Why would you want a seperate browser? Konqueror is the best browser in the world no matter rendering engine it uses; theres no need to recreate such a great product just because its backend has changed, especially since konqueror is *designed* to swap out backends.

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Re: webkit in konqueror?
by Emil Sedgh on Monday 31/Mar/2008, @00:40

also EditContentMode is coming for 4.1
this means we will have WYSIWYG editors on Konqueror.
go KHTML devs, GO.

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