Re: SimpleWebKit (was GNUstep Web browser (was Re: WebKit Bounty))

[Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Am 06.03.2007 um 15:54 schrieb Gregory John Casamento:

> There hasn't been skepticism, just the idea that if we do it from  
> scratch we will be duplicating the efforts of the KHTML and Apple  
> teams working on WebKit.
>
> I believe that both approaches have merit.  If we can get something  
> working with a from scratch solution, then I believe it's a good  
> thing.  But, such an implementation will always have issues with  
> bad webpages that many of the other browsers can handle.

Yes, I agree that this is the most crucial aspect for real life  
useage. I have started to load other pages: www.apple.de fails  
because it wants JavaScript. www.apple.com fails somewhere in my HTML  
scanner. And so, bugs come to the surface.

Many other browsers also have issues with pages that others can  
handle. A common situation is that although WebKit is one of the best  
implementations, Web designers have a tendency to optimize for the  
second or third best and break operation for Safari/WebKit. Safari  
still has the "Submit error to Apple..." menu function. So,  coming  
to a more or less appropriately working html engine is more a  
community process than engineering or coding.

And, all these projects have started being worse than existing  
browsers. But they managed to catch up by feedback. And now, HTML 4  
is quite stable, so I think we can use the superior implementation  
speed of Objective-C to catch up much faster. Let's see how far we  
come...

Nikolaus