[Web4lib] Safari for Windows

John Fink john.fink at gmail.com
Tue Jun 12 09:41:40 EDT 2007


Sorry to be Captain Nitpick, but KHTML is LGPL, not public domain.  There is
a Very Very Big difference.

jf

On 6/12/07, Thomas Bennett <bennetttm at appstate.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tuesday 12 June 2007 05:36, Alexander Struck wrote:
> > Tanya Rabourn wrote:
> > > On 6/11/07, Andrew Hankinson <andrew.hankinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >> For those of you who do website testing but do not have Macs, Apple
> just
> ...
> >
> > I'm sure they're using the same HTML rendering engine as on MacOSX.
>
> Which we all know (or do we) is the khtml public domain rendering engine
> used
> in Konqueror, the linux kde browser that Safari was designed on.  "because
> of
> its "copyleft" license, KHTML remains in public domain, and improvements
> made
> by Apple are fed back into the Konqueror project, fast-tracking the
> maturity
> of Konqueror's back end" ( http://www.exclipy.com/khtml.html )
>
> Thomas
>
> > Since Opera, MSIE and Firefox are using different ones, you now have the
> > 4th engine right on your MS OS. But that shouldn't hold you back from
> > testing the several JavaScript engines...
> > --Alexander
> >
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> pictures
> per second and might last several minutes, how many words is that?
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