Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Sep 2008 11:15 UTC
Mozilla & Gecko clones 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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Comment by hussam
by hussam on Wed 10th Sep 2008 12:20 UTC
hussam
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2006-08-17

"Why Mozilla Is Committed to Gecko as WebKit Popularity Grows"

For heaven's sake, because Mozilla makes Gecko. why would Mozilla work one someone else's product?

And don't expect Mozilla to shutdown because someone else is making a more popular product. Mozilla is a big company with a lot of financial resources.

Edited 2008-09-10 12:27 UTC