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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This Webkit fanboyism is getting to the point of sheer absurdity. My question here is "where is the beef ?"- where are the Webkit browsers that are annihilating Mozilla Firefox ?. Safari ? Well how amazing a Apple marketed product for the Apple Computers is amazingly successful on Apple products. Konqueror- give me a break, perhaps with the newest QT4.4/4.5 developments it might become interesting. Chrome oh well I can totally see how Firefox devs must be jumping out the window because the blogosphere has a new hard on about a new Google beta product. Oh maybe you mean the iPhone, and the 0.05% of the cell phone using world who can afford, or want to afford the sexy status symbol.
Firefox commands close to 50% in the country where I live. It is not installed on every new computer you purchase- it is not bundled with the operating system and it has been growing, growing and growing in terms of actual usage. For 90% of computer users there is no competition between Webkit based browser and Firefox.
Guys lay off the cool-aid. It is getting really, really boring.