[rekonq] Re: 0.7 Development: TABS UP

[Markus Slopianka]

Am Montag 27 September 2010, 09:24:24 schrieb Benjamin Poulain:
> Nice, thanks for all the people working on the engine.

First of all, I don't think here are any people who work on the rendering engine.


> It is some serious skill for bashing you have there. You are welcome to
> help any day to get the "a worse rendering engine" better.

Secondly, if A is worse than B and B is pretty good, the result is not necessary that A is 
very bad. B is just very good.
Ironically the people who work on QtWebKit agree with me. QtWebKit is mostly done by 
Nokia.
Now look at MeeGo, the collaborative Linux distribution project of Nokia and Intel.
MeeGo Netbook uses Chrome. And Nokia even allocates work force to port Firefox Mobile to 
Qt for MeeGo Handset instead of using a QtWebKit browser.
Since Qt 4.7 QtWebKit is quite good but it's not on par with Chrome, Safari, or even 
Firefox 4.
Try visiting 
http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Performance/PsychedelicBrowsing/Default.html
with a QtWebKit browser (rekonq comes to mind), a recent Chromium build launched with the 
--enable-accelerated-2d-canvas parameter, and Firefox 4b5. You'll see the difference.
In Qt 4.6 QtWebKit wasn't even good enough for Facebook. It printed JavaScript errors over 
and over again.
Luckily that changed and QtWebKit is now fine for everyday browsing but Chrome's WebKit 
port is better nonetheless and if Chrome's GUI wasn't so incredibly bad, I'd even use it.

Markus