State of Unity/WebKit..

[Frans Englich]

On Monday 30 October 2006 16:44, George Staikos wrote:
> On Monday 30 October 2006 09:48, Martin Konold wrote:
> > Am Montag, 30. Oktober 2006 15:42 schrieb Maksim Orlovich:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Please keep in mind that it's in no way certain or even likely that the
> > > project known as unity will be used in KDE. For that to happen, certain
> > > difficult issues (like development model, and what to do with 3+ years
> > > of improvements in khtml the fork lacks) need to be resolved. They may
> > > or may not be.
> >
> > I would like to hear some technical input from George on this.
>
>   I'm working hard to get a development model environment that's compatible
> and won't result in a fork again.  I'm don't have one yet.  As far as the
> development work goes, we will try to re-add much of the work, but it's
> going to be the case that some things will be lost.  This is unavoidable I
> think, and is a trade-off that we have to consider in the face of gaining
> other functionality and improvements that we don't have, along with a far
> wider developmer base.

Perhaps a good approach to that is to port all of KHTML's regression tests to 
Webkit. It feels like that's a good idea in any case, but it also allows a 
way to measure in what way Webkit regresses, and then possibly fix it.


Cheers,

		Frans