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Re: Why porting Mozilla to Amiga??
« on: June 03, 2003, 07:32:43 PM »
Hi

Ok how I see the browsers  for comercial platforms :

Fast & Small: Opera
Not so fast and bigger: IE
Slow and BigPig: Mozilla

Capabilities:
1. Mozilla
2.IE
3.Opera

1st and 2nd place depends upon what you need
(e.g I don't know if you can use Mozilla as a COM component in your Win app -i guess not- but you can use  IE )

Nevertheles, the capabilities of all three browsers are far beyond capabilities of any Amiga browser.
That's why I prefer Opera on win (It rocks)
Mozilla on win is not an option (when it comes to rendering of 95% of pages, Gecko cannot challenge Opera at all )
Ups, Opera is comercial ;)  (I mean closed source)
Why not set up a fund to pay Opera software to port their browser to AmiagOS ?
... Ups, lots of money (but a stable browser with support(?) )

Forgot the KHTML, hm, saw, never used... , but for sure it has substantial developer community behind (it means bigger power than current Amiga browsers have)

OK: My conclusion is a question:

Mozilla and KHTML are 'free to port'.
Was the Amizilla project started just "because we like Mozilla" ?

Because ,I guess, the evaluation of the man power needed to port KHTML vs Mozzilla could produce results better for KHTML. It is better to have something small, than possibly nothing ( i mean nothing maintainable)

- no meant as an offence of flamewar starter -

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Treke