(fwd) Re: Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer

[Dirk Mueller]

... and my answer to it.

----- Forwarded message from Dirk Mueller <mueller at kde.org> -----

From: Dirk Mueller <mueller at kde.org>
Subject: Re: Greetings from the Safari team at Apple Computer
To: Don Melton @apple.com
[......]
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 21:18:19 +0100

On Die, 07 Jan 2003, Don Melton wrote:

> I'm the engineering manager of Safari, Apple Computer's new web browser 
> built upon KHTML and KJS.  I'm sending you this email to thank you for 
> making such a great open source project and introduce myself and my 
> development team.  I also wish to explain why and how we've used your 
> excellent technology.  It's important that you know we're committed to 
> open source and contributing our changes, now and in the future, back 
> to you, the original developers.  Hopefully this will begin a dialogue 
> among ourselves for the benefit of both of our projects.

I hope so too. I'm deeply impressed by your detailed changelog and by 
the changes. A few of the changes have already happened in "our" developing 
version and many of them were on our TODOs. For example just about this 
weekend I was working on improving the kjs garbage collector and now I read 
that you apparently already fixed the issues I had with it. Seems to me like 
a huge christmas gift. Thank you. Thanks a lot. 

Especially I'd like to hope that we could set up a mailing list where we 
could exchange ideas, patches and bug reports. Also a common testsuite for 
regressions would be nice and probably help us a lot in developing KHTML and 
KJS further. Ideally the plan should be, and I hope you agree, to use a 
common codebase for the backend. 

> Please forward this email to any contributor whom I may have missed.

We've forwarded it to kfm-devel at kde.org. 

> P.S. -- I'm sending you this email while attending MacWorld exposition 
> so it may take myself and my staff several hours before we can respond 
> to email.  My apologies in advance.

Have some nice time there and greetings from Germany, I just watched the 
Safari presentation :-)


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Dirk (received 493 mails today)