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Mozilla Project Hurt by Apple's Decision to use KH
Anonymous Coward writes "I Read this article from ZDNet claiming how some of the Mozilla developers were hurt by Apple's decision to use KHTML over Gecko. I can see both their points. Mozilla was made for cross-platform compatibility, and this probably adds to the bloat, however that's not what they were looking for. They wanted small and fast."
When I think of small and fast, I think of IE. It's a much smaller download than mozilla and it runs great.
IE on mac OS X just as good if not better than the windows version. It's good to finally see IE running well on a unix operating system.
Stanley Feinbaum, professional journalist and master debater! God bless the USA!
Blizzard is nothing but a political double-talker, his propaganda laden piece is exhausting. It's sad to see developers reduced to this.
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He knocks KHTML several times, supposedly because Mozilla renders web pages so much better and KHTML sucks or so he has heard. I have been using KHTML for several years as my only browser and I can say that he couldn't be further from the truth.
On the other hand I constantly hear (ha!) of rendering screw ups by Mozilla. Just the other day a friend showed me how Mozilla completely distorted the rendering of fonts on
Blizzard says Mozilla renders not only the webpage but the whole user interface of the browser. I'm sorry, but I never heard of a dumber excuse for incompetence.
Another thing you've got to remember is that Blizzard is a Red Hat/GNOME partisan. That should put it in context.
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the firm ware of the windows iPod(the one sold by apple) is diffrent that that of the one sold for the mac....so OSX filters out the windows iPods.
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
Gecko is spelled:
G-E-C-K-O
I just felt bad for you pronouncing it "gecho" all the time.
Well, I'll hand it to Slashdot readers, they really do have the ability to get inside the author's head. Especially all those mods who divined that my parent post must be flamebait because it suggested Apple had certain traits which might not be considered good by some people. Boy, have I ever learned my lesson. Why, I just took out a loan for $5,000 so I could buy a brand spanking new Macintosh computer with the superb open source operating system MacOS X. After all, with the help of this fine young man, I have learned that i am just a whiny little bitch that likes the stuff apple has developed.
Mozilla developing fast? Whatever... live in your dream land. It's still the same piece of crap on my desktop now as it was a year ago. Ugh.
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