Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Sep 2008 11:15 UTC
With the recent surge in WebKit adoption, many have stated to question the usefulness of Mozilla's Gecko browsing engine, claiming that WebKit is far superior. Some even go as far as saying that Firefox should ditch Gecko in favour of WebKit. Ars Technica's Ryan Paul explains why that is utter, utter bogus. "From a technical perspective, Gecko is now very solid and no longer lags behind WebKit. A testament to the rate at which Gecko has been improving is its newfound viability in the mobile space, where it was practically considered a nonstarter not too long ago. Mozilla clearly has the resources, developer expertise, and community support to take Gecko anywhere that WebKit can go."
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2006-11-17
Epiphany uses the gecko engine, not webkit and so does Galeon. I've never heard about iCab, Omniweb or Shiira. Google chooses Webkit and suddently it's like gecko is outdated. there are more browsers based on gecko than on webkit, for many specialised needs. There is even the uBrowser to browse the web on a GL surface. I don't really know where he got this idea about webkit being the superior browser. gecko has always been more complete and more powerful than webkit and is likely to be for the decade to come. It comes at the price of size, and it is not suitable for memory constrained devices, but for normal computer, it's the web engine of choice. When I read this article, I thought it was really weird. It sounds as if gecko is catching up to webkit.
Edited 2008-09-09 12:25 UTC