[muglo] Re: what browsers you like, on OSX 10.3?
- From: "Eric D" <hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:57:52 -0400
Camino is the most mature Gecko-based browser on Mac (Netscape, Mozilla,
FireFox being the others). Camino has the advantage in that it's built from
the ground up as a Mac OS X application.
FireFox is nifty and maturing rapidly but it's still a cross-platform port
which means the GUI is a little crude and not focussed on the Mac GUI
philosophy.
The one bonus with FIreFox is that the included version of the HTML
rendering engine will usually be newer (read as faster, more stable) than
the one in Camino.
>From: Paul Thomas <paul_thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [muglo] Re: what browsers you like, on OSX 10.3?
>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 20:26:18 -0400
>
>I have been using Firefox on OS X for some time now and like it's
>features!
>
>It seems to be pretty solid too.
>
>I don't know Camino.
>
>Paul
<snip>
> >> Safari, Safari, Safari!
> >>
> >> Though I will admit to being surprised that Apple used the KHTML
> >> engine as the base rather than the Gecko engine. Safari was a dog when
> >> it first came out.
Apple supposedly chose KHTML because it has a much smaller code-base than
Gecko. Perhaps from Apple's POV it was better to have a small code base that
they could properly examine and throw their engineering resources at rather
than a big bloated project that they couldn't properly assess?
Who knows? Perhaps they know something about KHTML's efficiency that
everyone else doesn't. Maybe it was better from a business POV for them not
to pump resources into making the most popular alternative browser better,
but to take a third, adequate browser without a significant Windows presence
and coopt it for their own. And, perhaps there's a difference in the
licencing agreements that go along with the two browsers?
Eric.
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