Re: Backends - was: ANNOUNCEMENT: The Future of Epiphany

[Robert Marcano <robert marcanoonline com>]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 17:32 +0200, Wouter Bolsterlee wrote:
> 2008-04-02 klockan 17:22 skrev Robert Marcano:
> > KHTML/WebKit is a nice piece of work, that can not be negated, but we
> > live in a real world, where we face the existence of expensive intranet
> > applications being tested and with support for a few browsers, to reach
> > the level of support Gecko has now we waited years from our providers,
> > that will take years for WebKit based browsers. I believe in choice, and
> > choice by the user not only the developer, choice to select your own
> > spam filter tools in Evolution, choice in selecting your own file search
> > tool in Nautilus, choice to select your own Java runtime in openoffice
> > (icedtea, IBM, Sun, etc..). I believe that the user must have a choice
> > in selecting what rendering engine she or he wants
> 
> With the renewed interest of Firefox on the Gnome desktop I'm not convinced
> Epiphany is the application that should offer both choices...
> 
>   mvrgr, Wouter

I am not speaking of only Epiphany, I mean the entire GNOME Desktop, we
have Evolution using gtkhtml, yelp using Gecko, epiphany in the future
using WebKit. The user lose the choice of selecting one rendering engine
if we do not start thinking in building a plug-able rendering engine for
all of them. We had it with epiphany now, lets expand it to other apps,
instead of following our closed world of each app do everything again.
But now I sound a little repetitive, stubborn by genetics jajajajaj :-)

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