The dot reports on the new version of Qt, as discussed by Qt developers Simon Hausmann and Andreas Aardal Hanssen. Much optimizations have already gone in the 4.5 development tree, and more is to come. You can also expect many functional improvements to the WebKit webbrowser engine, graphical effects and a new animations API.
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Member since:2005-10-13
I'm getting the impression you don't know what Webkit is.
Apple didn't fork webkit, they forked KHTML which created webkit. Webkit is what Safari is using.
Qt 4.4 has an older version of webkit that they spent a while porting, and it has quite a few limitations. The last I heard, 4.5 was going to update it to the latest trunk code available and be much improved.
Edited 2008-08-14 01:05 UTC
Member since:2005-07-07
Apple didn't fork webkit, they forked KHTML which created webkit. Webkit is what Safari is using.
Qt 4.4 has an older version of webkit that they spent a while porting, and it has quite a few limitations. The last I heard, 4.5 was going to update it to the latest trunk code available and be much improved.
Member since:2005-11-11
"if webkit is so much better than Gecko why did Apple Fork it?"
Let's turn that question around (after adjusting it for accuracy).
If Gecko is so much better than (khtml), why did Apple fork (khtml) instead of using Gecko?
The answer is out there (Apple gave it when announcing Safari), just go find it instead of fumbling around misunderstanding the issue.
Member since:
2005-07-07
if webkit is so much better than Gecko why did Apple Fork it?