On Friday, January 17, 2003 6:50 AM,
Brian Carstensen <reggie.lives_at_netzero.com> wrote:
> I agree, but supposedly the Gecko code is so obese it would have taken
> a long long time to sift through it all and figure out how it actually
> works, and even longer to modify it to be what Apple wanted. The
> KHTML is very small and streamlined, and thus easier to work with.
>
Well, that's arguable, and even if it is the case then Apple's developers who
helped on Gecko are just as much to blame...
> Either way, we get a shiney new web browser to play with. :)
>
Yea that's true. And Safari does look pretty neat. Hopefully we'll see some
improvements in rendering and standards compliance over the base KHTML code that
perhaps apple will *give back* to the KHTML group, that way everyone wins...
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