KDE browser work team

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 01 July 2009, Stefan Majewsky wrote:
> what developers need. Perhaps the developers are already quite efficient,
> but just too less. RFC?

it's a three headed monster that we face:

* the web continues to grow in features and complexity at a great pace (this 
means more work for web stack developers to keep up with it all)

* web developers only test against web stacks that have "enough usage", which 
means in practice IE, Gecko and WebKit. so workarounds, where needed, often 
appear in the websites themselves for those engines. that means those stacks 
actually have _less_ work to do since the work-arounds are often supplied for 
them by website developers.

* KHTML has a dedicated, efficient and hard working team, but it's numbers are 
very small.

so the situation is a real limit on developer resources on a stack that gets 
very little testing against by web developers with very rapidly evolving web 
technology.

barring dozens of more KHTML developers and significant market sure (more than 
KDE's total market share, actually :) this situation will not improve.

note that KHTML remains a great option for non-web-browser in-application use 
for many (though not all) applications. in-application use of QtWebKit or 
KHTML is actually a very different kind of discussion with very different 
issues (e.g. API relevance) ...

regardless, at this point we need people writing code, not so much writing 
words.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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