From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Thu Dec 4 08:03:38 2008 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) In-Reply-To: <20081204114620.wkmo5l9e88kwgkgc@pop.freeola.net> References: <4936C1C4.608@gmail.com> <822C7CFC-F877-4D4B-9460-37874D1CFE26@seznam.cz> <20081204114620.wkmo5l9e88kwgkgc@pop.freeola.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <57EA6C0A-EB84-4474-9E95-33B2FB2A6BA9@bassment.nu> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Maurits van de Kamp Subject: Re: [MiNT] OT Highwire Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:40:04 +0100 To: mint@fishpool.com X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Dec 2008 12:40:05.0519 (UTC) FILETIME=[6F1831F0:01C9560D] X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: maurits@bassment.nu Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: > I've not heard of any of this stuff so I can't really comment. > Is Webkit a browser or an IDE ? It's an open source webbrowser engine, you can use it to build your own browser. > Do we have to start developing a browser from scratch yet again ? No, we could base it on WebKit ;o) > So far we have had CAB, Draconis, Wensuite, Highwire, Dillo, Links > and probably more like Newsie. Don't forget Spider, the vaporware webbrowser that was added as a menu option to Oasis 2 and only displayed a very cool logo with 'coming soon'. ;o) The only one of those browsers usable to continue development would be Highwire, but once WebKit is ported it'll be a lot less effort to stay up to date with new browser features. Maurits.