Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 27th Apr 2006 17:11 UTC, submitted by Dhanesh
InformationWeek compares the latest IE7 beta to Firefox 1.5, and concludes: "On a straight, feature-for-feature comparison, IE7 stacks up well against Firefox. If its improved security model lives up to its design specs, malware distributors will find it much more difficult to make a dishonest living, and the tabbed browsing features in the new release should make it much easier to deal with multiple pages."
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I don't think Gecko can be made into the "most portable and most resource-friendly engine". KHTML, maybe, I don't know much about it.
Currently, Opera probably holds that title, as can be illustrated by the fact that the same engine powers the desktop browser and their mobile versions.
There is Minimo, but I haven't heard much of anything about that lately. They are hacking this stuff into Gecko now, whereas Opera designed it with that in mind from the beginning.
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2006-01-08
As IE is trying to arrive in the browser world again and adds such features, I hope the development of firefox, opera and co won't be focused on feature count as it will end up in bloat/norton products.
It would be interesting if Gecko and KHTML became the most portable and the most resource-friendly engines so that they can appeal at slower computers, mobiles/portables and so on.
Just think of wireless devices accessing a webserver which would cost just a bit more than hardware costs, but be as powerful as the server is. It would be just perfect for industry where such things are needed. The point would be - write once, run everywhere and Gecko and KHTML could be jokers for such devices.
No need to advertise with bloat as integrated tetris etc. Do one job, but do it good. And especially Firefox with its plugins is doing it right, but it still requires just too much (no I'm not thinking of plugins as flash etc turning the performance down)
Edited 2006-04-27 19:33