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Mozilla Project Hurt by Apple's Decision to use KH

Posted by Hemos on from the the-battle-rages-on dept.

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."

9 of 610 comments (clear)

  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    First post written in Mozilla, proving that gecko is indeed fast (and can be made small).

  2. Fragmentation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny


    Apple is hurting the entire free world by doing this. They are causing market fragmentation in the browser arena. Many fine companies in democratic countries will suffer..

    When you buy Apple, you're supporting terrorism!

  3. Fp! by ryanvm · · Score: 5, Funny

    Damn, I would have had first post if I wasn't using Mozilla.

  4. Re:Oh, no! Horror of Horrors! by P.+Niss · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm typing this in Mozilla, which I sear by...

    Must be on a Titanium Powerbook.

  5. Re:even if it's "half finished".... by ChaosDiscord · · Score: 5, Funny
    Regardless of this, Safari is far more than halfway done.

    Safari is closer to 90% done.

    Of course, that just leaves the other 90% to do...

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  6. It's not Gecko! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's Geico! Honestly, I keep getting all these calls from you people. Go away!

  7. slashdot has a KDE icon by autopr0n · · Score: 4, Funny

    and KHTML is part of KDE.

    God, why I am I saying this? Is it that important to my life to spend time typing out inconsiquential facts for random people over the internet? I need a life...

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  8. Re:even if it's "half finished".... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    And by the way, Phoenix is Windows-only.

    So you're saying when i ran /usr/bin/phoenix that my computer rebooted to windows, miraculously hacked Windows to be able to SOMEHOW run KDE as the UI and then downloaded, installed, and started Phoenix all so fast that I didn't even see it?

    Damn, that's pretty good for a 7mb app, zipped or not. Amazing!

  9. OT:KHTML can't be _that_ bad w/r/t cross-platform by Prior+Restraint · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is not a particlarly fast machine, an Athlon 1400 I think,...

    *sigh*

    I must be getting old; until I read your comment, it didn't occur to me that my Pentium-III 550, a scant four years old (was not willing to spring for the 650) was anything less than blinding in its speed (hey, after a 486-66, it is!). So, just how often am I supposed to replace my machine to keep it reasonable?