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Apple Approves New Browsers in App Store, As Long As They're Based On Safari
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01/14/09
you have it bass akward... safari is based on webkit, not the other way around. how the hell can you be writing this story and not have any idea of what the hell your are talking about.
webkit come from the rendering engine from the konqueror browser that was used as a part of KDE (an open source UNIX windowing system).. apple used the open source code and has been adding to the project ever since..
webkit is not even a browser it's a rendering engine... Google Chrome and Palms new bowser also used webkit actually lots of new browsers use it and are adding to the code base... it's not an apple or a safari thing at all..
idiots!
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01/14/09
"these browsers are based on webkit, which is safari's rendering engine, which apple took from konqueror, which is kde's browser, which is a graphical desktop environment for many linux distributions, linux of course being the brainchild of Linus Trovalds, grandson of poet Ole Torvalds..."
Seriously, if people don't know that webkit is Safari's rendering engine then they're not paying much attention anyhow. Lighten up.
01/14/09
Saying it has to be "based" on Safari is just plain wrong, as Chrome is certainly not based on Safari.
Face it, it was poor reporting.
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01/14/09
The issue is that the rendering engine does not vary from the one in Safari's, so these aren't really new browsers.
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no kidding! While the crashes have been less frequent with 2.2, they still happen and it is damn annoying.
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It doesn't look like you could bring in your own branch of webkit here, or even interfere with any of the rendering functions at all. As Long As They're Based On Safari Mobile's Branch of WebKit would be a totally accurate (goofily long) title.
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