From kfm-devel Wed Sep 22 00:17:28 2004 From: Dimosthenis Kaponis Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 00:17:28 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: Safari patches. State of KHTML. Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=109583698001378 Hello, Before I begin, and as per the request on www.konqueror.org/developers/, I am stating that I am not subscribed to this list. By compiling KDE 3.3 early this month, I was saddened to see that the 'cousin' browser, Apple's Safari, provides vastly superior rendering quality on a much larger number of pages. I must admit I was surprised, as I had the impression that Apple was providing patches back to the community in a timely fashion and that, as they are using KHTML, it would be fairly straightforward to apply those patches to the konqueror/khtml codebase. I must assume that this has not happened to date, judging from the differences between Safari's rendering and Konqueror's. Are these correct assumptions? Are the reasons for which Apple's patches/changes -- if they exist -- have not been integrated with the khtml codebase of a political, legal or otherwise non-technical nature, or are they the result or reduced developer interest/manpower/time and/or unavailability by Hyatt and his colleagues? Finally, with Gecko providing consistently better quality output than the Konqueror KHTML variety (Safari comes pretty close in most cases -- something surely not bad for khtml and kde), is the qt-gecko port going to slowly overshadow khtml's dominance in konqueror or is it expected that khtml will -- soon -- be brought up to the level of the safari 'branch'? Regards, Dimosthenis.