Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 23rd Jul 2007 21:04 UTC, submitted by troy.unrau
"There is one major web rendering engine that grew entirely out of the open source world: KHTML is KDE's web renderer which was built from the ground up by the open source community with very little original corporate backing. The code was good and branches were born as a result, the best known being Webkit. Now, after years of split, KHTML and Webkit are coming together once again."
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In other Webkit news, the Gnome hackers at GUADEC 2007 managed to get WebKit running inside Epiphany (The Gnome Desktop's GTK+ based browser) using the upstream GDK port:
http://blogs.gnome.org/xan/2007/07/17/epiphany-webkit/
Webkit is a clean code base, apparently easy to hack on and, as you can see, it's obviously starting to make waves outside of Apple and KDE/Qt/Trolltech.
With Mozilla slowly cleaning out years of cruft (Here, on a whim I picked an example off of the top of the Burning Edge blog: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=332174) and Webkit provided a healthy injection of competition things could get really good for FOSS desktop surfers.
Edited 2007-07-23 22:16