[CS-FSLUG] (OT) Re: OFB: The Real Announcement at WWDC: Safari for Windows

[Eduardo Sanchez]

On Wednesday 13 June 2007 16:33, Timothy Butler wrote:
> > I've labelled this one OT since the only link to the open source
> > community is that Apple has shared some bit of their browser engine
> > in the past with the open source community.
>
> 	I think the significance for FOSS is actually quite a bit more than
> that. While WebKit has grown, it isn't just a bit related to Free
> Software. It's formed from KHTML and the whole codebase is released,
> with a publicly available CVS. I haven't heard any updates in awhile,
> but the last I heard, it sounded like KDE 4 would use WebKit's
> codebase rather than the slow growing KHTML codebase for its browser.
>
> 	-Tim

AFAIK,  the codebase will be KHTML 4 with some improvements ported from 
WebKit. 

Eduardo