[Feedback] Amarok Is the Best Out there! Are there plans for a native windows port?

[Beso]

2008/6/17 Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie>:

> Beso wrote:
> > this boost in the cross-system that the new qt4 have brought (the same
> > is to be said also for osx and solaris) is the reason why firefox 4 will
> > go with qt4 and webkit.
>
> WTF???
>
> This is a new one for me! Is this even vaguely based in reality?
> Although I've been very impressed with webkit, I'd be surprised if
> Mozilla dropped Gecko just like that! It probably wouldn't hurt the
> firefox community any tho' if this were to happen (99% of users not
> noticing or caring) - it would be more the corporate arrangements for
> using Gecko in various places (embedded particularly) that this could
> affect...
>
> Anyway, is this serious? Or is this just your prediction? Google didn't
> bring up anything other than FUD, smoke and mirrors.
>
> I wasn't going to post to ask this, but figured I'd run the risk for
> being awarded the "gullibility badge" for today :)
>
> Col
>

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 mozilla.org.
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.

-- 
dott. ing. beso
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