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Seems a great news but I can't really understand the benefits and differents between Gecko and Webkit, can someone say?
by afshinmeh 14y ago
Seems a great news but I can't really understand the benefits and differents between Gecko and Webkit, can someone say?
- qznc 14y agoFor the normal user it does not matter. It just matters that there are competing engines. As long as there are multiple implementations, we will have a formal standard for HTML and Co. If e.g. everybody (Microsoft,Mozilla) would adopt WebKit, then nobody would bother to extend the HTML standard. Just implement it in WebKit. Soon, HTML will be a mess like Office Open XML.
- jacques_chester 14y agoFor historical reasons, Webkit has turned out to be much easier to work on than Gecko. With Gecko you get heavy-duty OOP module system riding shotgun (XPCOM). That seems to be a sufficiently high barrier to contributors that only Mozilla are using Gecko with any seriousness. Webkit has evolved out of a different history as a sorta-kinda standalone component of KDE to be much more approachable to outside contributions. Since Apple forked it from KHTML it's gone from strength to strength.