GSoC 2010 and Konqueror

[Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé - Developer]

Hi!

> There's also the Webkit/KHTML 'war'. What is the state of that discussion ?
> Should I worry about a switch at that level ?
> It seems that KHTML development is currently quite active so I'm not really
> worried about that.
Maybe some abstract work could be done. It should be automatically possible to 
make KHTML- and WebKitPart-Plugins compatible.
KDEWebKit is not yet very KDEish, that could be another task.

> About the project itself, GreaseMonkey is a plugin for Firefox. Don't you
> think that a firefox-like plugin interface would be a big step up for
> Konqueror ?
> That plugin interface could even be compatible with Firefox plugins but I'm
> not familiar with firefox plugins so I can't really tell.
> I think it would be a too big project for a GSoC though.
Have you thought about discovering scripting-language-support? I tried to 
create a Ruby-plugin and failed. JS for plugins would be certainly great. 
Remember Kross and the (ruby|python)pluginfactory. I think Firefox-
compatibility would be an impossible task. But with good scripting-support it 
should be much easier to port most important Firefox-plugins.

Jonathan

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