Re: really attracting developers

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 8/30/06, Rogelio Serrano <rogelio.serrano@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/30/06, Jason Clouse <jhclouse@charter.net> wrote:
> > On 2006-08-29 17:07:47 -0400 Michael Hanni <mhanni@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Just throwing an idea out here: would it be possible to bind directly
> > > to KHTML
> > > and skip the WebKit framework nightmare? [1]
> >
> > Somebody did this a few years ago, I think.  But it seems a shame not
> > to ride on Apple's coattails with WebKit.  After all, they have the
> > manpower for QA and development, and plenty of web developers check
> > that their stuff works in Safari.
> >
> > I was working on a CoreFoundation implementation, but I hear that
> > WebKit is totally abandoning Cocoa, so I'm not sure it makes a
> > difference now. :-(
> >
> > I think Gecko and libwww are poor choices, personally.
> >
>
> poor choices but the only available ones. and they can be improved.
>
> Maybe we should try doing both. Like what i was told in an extreme
> programming seminar, go ahead and fail.
>
> i would like to try libwww again. but then the complexity of it all
> makes me look for a simpler alternative not just to the browser but
> the whole www.

i was wondering too if the web interface and the desktop interface was
merged by design. two birds with one stone.

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