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Maciej Stachowiak mjs@apple.com
Thu, 20 Feb 2003 15:23:05 -0800


On Thursday, February 20, 2003, at 03:11  PM, Dirk Mueller wrote:

> On Don, 20 Feb 2003, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>
>
> BTW, is it anyhow possible to not get CC'ed explicitely upon reply? If 
> I can
> change something in the mailing list setup to tell that your mail 
> agent,
> please tell me. Thanks :)

Sorry, I don't know of any way to do that. Mail.app only has "Reply" 
and "Reply All".

>
> [font.cpp]
>> I think we'd prefer to stick with ifdefs to forking the whole file,
>> even if you guys don't want to merge the ifdefs. It seems to me there
>> is more common code than different code in this file (and other files
>> with local changes), and duplicating changes to the common part will 
>> be
>> wasteful and error-prone.
>
> Are you sure? in the v60 which I have here every method is completely
> ifdef'ed. I see almost zero common code.
>
> Anyway, its just 200 lines of code.. And then you can put as man apple
> specifics in it as you need.

OK, it might make sense then, although in the long term it would be 
nice if we had a common API for this at the Qt level, even if the 
implementation was different.

>
>> Also, "darwin" doesn't seem like quite the right parallel to "x11",
>> since you can build an X11-based khtml on Darwin, and Darwin doesn't
>> actually include the Mac OS window system (Quartz) that Safari depends
>> on. If we go this way, how about "quartz" as a parallel name?
>
> Fine with me.
>
>> The idea we came up with was the change the part of our user agent
>> string that says "(like Gecko)" to "(khtml, like Gecko)". That would
>> allow identification of all khtml-based browsers and still allow most
>> sites to detect us as a DOM-compliant browser. Does that sound like a
>> reasonable choice for a common element?
>
> Yes. what would be the complete string you send ?
>
> Hmm, I think its KHTML actually, not khtml. right?

Capitalized is fine.

Regards,

Maciej