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Safari Code Benefiting Open Source Community
saha writes "Thought this article about Apple's Safari contribution back to the open source community may interest some of the readers. KDE adds Safari feel to desktop Linux: The Konqueror Web browser, which shares its basic engine with Apple's Safari, has benefited from Apple's Safari work, KDE said. Konqueror now loads and renders more quickly and has better support for Web standards. One of Apple's major efforts with Safari has been to encourage users to report sites that don't work properly with the browser, in order to improve compatibility."
Don't be ridiculous. Did MS make those themes for Mozilla? Of course not. You are completely missing the point. Then again they are infamous for not reading the articles at Neowin as well.
A lot of the improvements in 3.2 were *not* because of the contributed Apple code. Some significant parts went in, but other major parts are going into 3.3. Its great that Apple is helping, and I don't want to minimize their contribution, but I'd like to see credit given where credit is due.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
I'm just taking an educated guess, but I'd imagine that KHTML probably can. I do know that WebCore, the OS X framework that Apple built around KHTML, can be embedded in OS X apps.
Hmmm...actually, Apple is taking on M$'s Power Point, part of the Office suite. Apple released Keynote, XML based presentation software that is, in many ways superior to Power Point(ex. slide changes, image rendering, etc.).
The key to this is compatibility with Office for Windows. As much as we hate to admit it, it is the standard by which all others is judged. Any suite that wants to replace Office, or at least become a major player in the office suite arena, has to be fully compatible with M$ Office. OpenOffice is close, koffice needs work, and Apple has yet to show a word processing app capable of Word's abilities(note: even Office v.X[for OS X] isn't 100% compatible). Make no mistake, Apple is working on it(that's why TextEdit can edit Word docs.).