Comments on: Things About The Chrome Release That Annoy Me

By: gameboy

gameboy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 12:43:41 +0000

for the second point said that to http://www.webkit.com ’cause :”Welcome to the website for the WebKit Open Source Project!
WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that’s used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. “

By: Janne

Janne — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:14:06 +0000

Like it or not, WebKit is largely Apple’s baby. Yes, KDE deserves HUGE amount of the credit, since WebKit is built on the shoulders of KHTML. But the two have been diverging since. If we look at WebKit, we can see that most of the developers are employed by Apple, Apple is the primary user of WebKit, hell even WebKits logo and the name of their blog is based on Safari!

To claim that WebKit and Apple are totally unrelated and separate is…. well, dumb. And complaining about calling WebKit “Apple’s Webkit” is splitting hairs in the max.

By: Nicolas

Nicolas — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:02:09 +0000

Technically, it’s as much KDE’s as Apple’s Webkit. Webkit is based on KHTML (a KDE project), but so many fixes and improvements have been contributed by Apple then by the community (when WWebkit was made opensource) that is has not much in common with KHTML anymore…

By: Kevin Kubasik

Kevin Kubasik — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:27:01 +0000

Yeah, it is largely KDE, but there are now lots of contributors to WebKit. My point is more that as a _community_ driven project, there are now dozens of contributors, not just Apple, Google, Adobe or KDE. Its everyone, everywhere.

By: ethana2

ethana2 — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:59:59 +0000

Can’t wait to see a recompiled, EULA-less binary in intrepid backports repos…

Is gOS going to make this their default browser?

By: Ian McKellar

Ian McKellar — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:56:56 +0000

Last time I checked it was KDE’s WebKit, since they did a lot of the initial hard work. Then again, I guess having Apple in your blog post gives you better adwords than KDE.

By: Benjamin Otte

Benjamin Otte — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:56:36 +0000

I find it interesting that you say “lots of companies” are behind Apple. Most of the code is probably still written by KDE people.

By: Tack

Tack — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:53:42 +0000

The author of http://tapthehive.com/discuss/This_Post_Not_Made_In_Chrome_Google_s_EULA_Sucks is a lawyer.

By: RyanTheRobot

RyanTheRobot — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:41:44 +0000

I’d like to add 2 things about Chrome that annoy me:

1. no middle mouse button click + scroll. I use this all the time when I’m reading websites with a lot of text and I keep trying to do it in Chrome.

2. …

3. I love it almost too much. Can I count that?

yeah that’s pretty much it.