In an announcement email this morning, the developers of the Epiphany web browser have announced that the next release will be based off of WebKit, and only WebKit.
We are a small team, with only one maintainer and a hand-full of
regular contributors. Maintaining the abstraction layer, and the Gecko
back-end require lot of effort and time. Much time alone is spent on
keeping up with Gecko API changes, and we have not had much
contributions to the Gecko back-end in a long time. [...]This single back-end will be * WebKit *.
This is the first time users will be able to experience WebKit on a GNOME desktop by default. Currently, to use WebKit, users need to download and install Konqueror from the KDE desktop or manually compile WebKit into epiphany.
The WebKit-enabled epiphany will make it into GNOME 2.24 this fall, or GNOME 2.26 next year depending on the development speed.
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Diego wrote:
To have a gnome desktop i have to install kde?
[No, but Konqueror pulls in KDE dependencies. "from the KDE desktop" as in Konqueror is from KDE, not that you have to use Konqueror from within KDE. -Jacob]
# Posted on 01-Apr-08 at 6:02 pm
mjr wrote:
What is the advantage of webkit over gecko?
# Posted on 02-Apr-08 at 1:32 pm
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# Posted on 03-Apr-08 at 9:16 am
me wrote:
@mjr: did you read the announcement?
# Posted on 03-Apr-08 at 10:30 am
mjr wrote:
Yes I should have read the announcement sorry.
# Posted on 03-Apr-08 at 2:11 pm
ka2 wrote:
“Currently, to use WebKit, users need to download and install Konqueror from the KDE desktop”
but that gets you khtml not webkit
# Posted on 17-Apr-08 at 4:44 am