From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <20030205204452.17167.qmail@mail.dirac.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Webbrowser
From: Keith Nash <kjn9@citizenearth.com>
Date: Wed,  5 Feb 2003 20:44:52 +0000
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> " 'Even though some of us used to work on Mozilla, we have to admit that
> the Mozilla code is a gigantic, bloated mess, not to mention slow, and with
> an internal API so flamboyantly baroque that frankly we can't even
> comprehend where to begin. Also did we mention big and slow and
> incomprehensible?'".
>
> sounds nice, doesn't it? :) article here:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/29183.html

This remarkably frank statement describes the reasons for Apple's choice of khtml over Mozilla as the rendering engine for OSX's new web browser, Safari.

Apple has open-sourced its WebCore library, which includes their modified form of khtml, and a library that replaces khtml's calls to KDE and Qt libraries (presumably with Aqua calls).

http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/index.html

http://www.apple.com/safari/

If anyone is serious about porting a graphical browser to Plan 9, this might be worth a look.