<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jun 17, 2008, at 7:04 AM, Beso wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">2008/6/17 Colin Guthrie <<a href="mailto:gmane@colin.guthr.ie" target="_blank">gmane@colin.guthr.ie</a>>:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Beso wrote:<br> > this boost in the cross-system that the new qt4 have brought (the same<br> > is to be said also for osx and solaris) is the reason why firefox 4 will<br> > go with qt4 and webkit.<br> <br> WTF???<br> <br> This is a new one for me! Is this even vaguely based in reality?<br> Although I've been very impressed with webkit, I'd be surprised if<br> Mozilla dropped Gecko just like that! It probably wouldn't hurt the<br> firefox community any tho' if this were to happen (99% of users not<br> noticing or caring) - it would be more the corporate arrangements for<br> using Gecko in various places (embedded particularly) that this could<br> affect...<br> <br> Anyway, is this serious? Or is this just your prediction? Google didn't<br> bring up anything other than FUD, smoke and mirrors.<br> <br> I wasn't going to post to ask this, but figured I'd run the risk for<br> being awarded the "gullibility badge" for today :)<br> <br> Col<br> </blockquote><div><br>well, i've read somewhere about this communication but i cannot find the link anymore. it was towards the start of may that i've read this. it was also pointing to an article released on <a href="http://mozilla.org" target="_blank">mozilla.org</a>.</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Never believe anything you read around aprilish :-) <br><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote"><div><br> well, gecko's code is really messy and is really bad nowadays. there isn't any more space for it. so this means that firefox either goes with a faster engine or does something to fix up gecko in another way. the aforementioned press release (that i now cannot find anymore and that makes me wonder if it's really true) mentioned exactly this: qt4 is perfect for cross-system developing and webkit is much more faster than gecko and also has reached 100% in acid tests and for this reason firefox has decided to switch to these 2 new superior technologies. the embedded part is now moving to qtopia and nokia annouced that all the new apps will be developed only for qtopia, but will not drow old gtk framework for some year. android will go with webkit and safari also goes with it; opera has presto that is the fastest one and the first one to reach acid standards. so the only browsers that need a new engine and are firefox and iexploder. now they're really slow and the extensions and plugin parts that make firefox so much popular will go away after seeing that the gecko engine is worse than others. so thinking about all these facts the announcement that i've read seemed quite true. <br> </div></div><br>-- <br>dott. ing. beso _______________________________________________<br>Amarok mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Amarok@kde.org">Amarok@kde.org</a><br>https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>