From kfm-devel Tue Jan 07 20:21:39 2003 From: Dirk Mueller Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 20:21:39 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: (fwd) Re: Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=104197104218786 ... and my answer to it. ----- Forwarded message from Dirk Mueller ----- From: Dirk Mueller Subject: Re: Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer To: Don Melton @apple.com [......] Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:18:19 +0100 On Die, 07 Jan 2003, Don Melton wrote: > I'm the engineering manager of Safari, Apple Computer's new web browser > built upon KHTML and KJS. I'm sending you this email to thank you for > making such a great open source project and introduce myself and my > development team. I also wish to explain why and how we've used your > excellent technology. It's important that you know we're committed to > open source and contributing our changes, now and in the future, back > to you, the original developers. Hopefully this will begin a dialogue > among ourselves for the benefit of both of our projects. I hope so too. I'm deeply impressed by your detailed changelog and by the changes. A few of the changes have already happened in "our" developing version and many of them were on our TODOs. For example just about this weekend I was working on improving the kjs garbage collector and now I read that you apparently already fixed the issues I had with it. Seems to me like a huge christmas gift. Thank you. Thanks a lot. Especially I'd like to hope that we could set up a mailing list where we could exchange ideas, patches and bug reports. Also a common testsuite for regressions would be nice and probably help us a lot in developing KHTML and KJS further. Ideally the plan should be, and I hope you agree, to use a common codebase for the backend. > Please forward this email to any contributor whom I may have missed. We've forwarded it to kfm-devel@kde.org. > P.S. -- I'm sending you this email while attending MacWorld exposition > so it may take myself and my staff several hours before we can respond > to email. My apologies in advance. Have some nice time there and greetings from Germany, I just watched the Safari presentation :-) -- Dirk (received 493 mails today)