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Scott slewin at bmts.com
Thu Nov 8 17:14:28 UTC 2007


Andrew Jarrett wrote:
> On Nov 8, 2007 11:36 AM, Scott <slewin at bmts.com> wrote:
> [snip]
>> machine.  The speed between the two can't be that much anyhow, is
>> Konqueror not based on Firefox?
> 
> Konqueror is not based on Firefox.  If I am not mistaken, Konqueror's
> engine was written from scratch and is called KHTML.  The engine for
> Firefox (Gecko) was taken from Netscape (when they opened their source
> code).
Oh, yea, that is right, I forgot about KHTML.  I got confused because 
Konqueror uses Netscape plugins and it identifies itself as "like 
Gecko", but it does identify itself as KHTML.  I guess KHTML is similar 
to Gecko. It is really cool that Safari is based on Konqueror.


-- 
Your friend,
Scott

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