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List:       kde-promo
Subject:    [kde-promo] Re: Companies backing khtml?
From:       Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-24 12:21:04
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On Mit, 23 Mai 2001, Rob Kaper wrote:

> Are there any companies actively backing khtml (not just KDE) so I can have
> some counterweight against that excellent argument? (in case "it renders as
> well as Gecko, I know it better and  DCOP rules" are not sufficient ;-) )

I know of two other companies using khtml for their products, 
which are web browsers for the embedded environment. There might be more, 
I'm not that well informed usually ;-)

The main advantages of khtml are probably: 

a) its LGPL rather than GPL. 
b) AFAIK Mozilla is still only Netscape extensions-compatible. khtml 
instead supports quite a few IE extensions as well, and if necessary, 
we'll probably add more. We're of course fully HTML4/CSS compliant (with a 
few exceptions for broken webpages though) and therefore its unlikely that 
our rendering engine is feature-wise much worse than Gecko. 
To make it simple: We support both "worlds" at the same time. 


Dirk

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