[Sugar-devel] webkit, hulahop; developing apps using browser engine DOM for widgets

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:42:49PM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> Two things to consider when looking at this...
>>
>>  - Startup, memory use and general responsiveness on XO hardware and 
>> general netbook hw. The current Browse.xo compares _very_ favourably 
>> with Firefox and Opera on XO-1 hardware.
>
>* webkit is known for / designer for very good performance and low 
>memory usage, and is used in nokia S60 phones, the iphone, the latest 
>palm phone (as the basis for WebOS), google android's web browser - you 
>name it, webkit's been there and done that.  [it should tell you 
>something that the world's top major smart-phone manufacturers _don't_ 
>use firefox, or they pay for opera]

[snip]

>in this case the google chrome project; the engineers added V8 to 
>_their_ version of webkit, and merging back is taking quite some time.

In addition to performance, there is another obvious reason for big 
players choosing webkit over mozilla: Licensing!

Funny how you mention an example of that yourself: It is in the interest 
of big players to be ahead.  Being non-evil is relevant too, so they 
choose something "Free", but favor things that they can fork for own 
commercial use to stay competitive.


Politics aside, I do not doubt that webkit might perform better than 
mozilla.  In some situations.  Optimized in certain ways.  'Cause there 
are a bunch of complex factors, as I understand it (and I don't 
understand it that deeply, really).


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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