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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: KHTMLWidget vs Raptor ?
From:       Lars Knoll <Lars.Knoll () mpi-hd ! mpg ! de>
Date:       1999-05-20 11:38:20
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On Thu, 20 May 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> John McNulty wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Waldo,
> > 
> > This is just me being curious here (not any kind of 
> > critisism).  I've been keeping an eye on how Mozilla
> > has been progressing, as I'm sure lots of others do,
> > and I got to wondering why the KDE developers are 
> > continuing to develop KHTML when  the Mozilla rendering
> > engine is close to completion.  Has anyone discussed 
> > ripping this out of Mozilla and dropping it into KDE?
> > After all, when it's done it will support HTML 4.0, CSS,
> > DOM and XML, which AFAIK is beyond the scope of KHTML.
> > 
> > It just strikes me that it would be a good idea to 
> > leaverage  the work of the Mozilla folk to give KDE
> > a leg up on  the HTML front.
> > 
> > Am I being grossly over simplistic though?
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> Actually this option is being discussed every two months :-)
> The main problem is that nobody has done it yet. I have
> been quite skeptical about it in the beginning but I've
> heared a lot of good things about the mozilla engine
> ever since so if I had the time I would consider it doing
> myself. Unfortunately I don't expect to have much time
> in the near future.

I agree, that it would be really nice, if we can use it, but I 
don't know how simple this would be (apart from licensing problems). 
What lib are they for example using for rendering? gtk? How is it possible
to integrate it nicely into kde?

> 
> Another problem could be the mozzila license which isn't
> compatible with the (L)GPL. (Has there been any changes
> in the mozilla licensing to address this, that you know of?)

It's still under the NPL.

Cheers,
Lars

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