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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: Netscape/Mozilla
From:       Kevin Sproul <forge () myrealbox ! com>
Date:       2000-03-26 7:06:38
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"Timothy R. Butler" wrote:
> 
> Hi Everyone!
>   In the IE5 discussion last week, it came up that Netscape was preparing a
> beta of Communicator 6.0. For those interested in this, I found the
> following... BTW, has the possibility of using Gecko source code in Konqi
> been considered, or is the NPL to restrictive?

This was discussed a looong time ago.  It is possible to use Gecko 
as a replacement for libkhtml.  However that would mean running Gecko 
and KDE so why not just run Mozilla or Netscape 6 ?

Gecko is good for several things at this stage of the game though.

1. A teaching tool to help the KDE people with some of the trickier 
parts of HTML, XML, CSS and whatever.

2. A reference plugin interface.  The code is open so it should be 
possible ( I can't call any programing task easy ) to match the plugin 
interface exactly.  This would give us all the new Netscape plugin
( on Linux.  Sorry users of other *nix ).

3. A compatibility reference point.  Both KDE and Mozilla claim to 
be 100% buzzword compliant.  In reality there is still room for some
incompatibility without either of them straying noticeably far from 
the spec.

4. A marketing partner.  "Konqi, Mozilla, Opera etc... all render 
this the same way.  They are right and you're browser is wrong.
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