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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RE[2]: Competition is good
by stestagg on Wed 10th Sep 2008 11:59
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as a web developer, is it would be nice if browsers were able to switch between some of the different engines.
As a web developer, this would spell for Chaos. To ensure that your websites still work, you'd STILL have to test them against each browser, given that browsers impose default styles on the engines, but now you would also have to test them against each browser-engine combination, making compatibility testing far more complex.
RE[3]: Competition is good
by LB06 on Thu 11th Sep 2008 12:18
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2007-01-18
I agree with your statement. Just because it's open source doesn't mean it doesn't need competition to inspire progress.
My only thought, as a web developer, is it would be nice if browsers were able to switch between some of the different engines.