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The Unforking of KDE's KHTML and Webkit Begins

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sounds-dirty dept.

Jiilik Oiolosse writes to tell us Ars Technica is reporting that after years of existing seperately, KHTML and Webkit are finally coming back together. "In open source terms, this may be as big of a deal as the gcc and egcs merger of yonder days. KHTML and Webkit are definitely coming of age. The KDE developers, responsible for the original creation of KHTML, are dedicated to seeing this unforking happen and are taking a leading role in that effort."

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  1. Re:How is it? by ZachPruckowski · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well, it's a famous forking/unforking story regarding GCC, and today we've had a GCC forking story, and a forking->unforking story. Since stories about successful unforks and stories about GCC aren't all that common on Slashdot, it makes sense you haven't seen it here before.

    Fortunately, in this case the reference is actually relevant to the process and the discussion. In the GCC story, it was completely unrelated to a license-based fork of GCC.

  2. Re:Webkit wins by shutdown+-p+now · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder if this actually means that WebKit will become a standard Qt (and not just KDE) component. Qt has its own HTML rendering engine currently, but it's rather simplistic. I wonder if Trolltech has decided it's time for something more powerful...