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

[Orville Bennett]

On Jun 17, 2008, at 7:04 AM, Beso wrote:

> 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.

Never believe anything you read around aprilish :-)
>
> 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.
>
> -- 
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