On Fri, 2006-08-09 at 17:36 -0400, John Moser wrote: > I guess the simplest question is probably the best: Why not > Epiphany/Webcore and Epiphany/GECKO? Not a fork, but a back-end plug > architecture (Read: buzz buzz buzz) that allows users to switch their > rendering engine either during run (redraw the page on the new engine) > or with a restart. The simplest answer is also best: because it's a lot of work. Ages ago a proof-of-concept was written. As far as I know, GTK/Webcore already exists for Nokia's internet tablet, and it's open-source. Some Epiphany developers tried to adapt it into Epiphany (which already has an architecture allowing plugging in separate backends) and it worked. Between that and a finished product is some hard work to shake out the bugs and some years of debugging to make it reliable. So, technically, there's no reason not to do it. Realistically, it's a matter of putting in a lot of effort. Adam
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