[TETENAL]

http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/

It looks like Nokia is porting WebCore to GNOME. What would be the purpose of such a project? Do they want to run this on Nokia phones?

[Judge_Fire]

Originally posted by TETENAL:
http://gtk-webcore.sourceforge.net/

It looks like Nokia is porting WebCore to GNOME. What would be the purpose of such a project? Do they want to run this on Nokia phones?

Or the other hardware (digital tv etc.) they do. Nokia has been including Opera in their phones so far, but I'm sure they'd want more control over future features, and without licensing fees.

They're probably looking at Gecko, too. Anything anti-microsoft, they're at war in the mobile OS thing already.

J

[TETENAL]

Ah, I didn't know they are also doing digital TVs. That makes sense. Gecko may be too bloated to be embedded into a phone.

Do you think this will benefit Apple in some way if another company with commercial interest has it's hands in WebCore development, or is that bad even for them?

[Superchicken]

To bad Apple didn't have something like... has to display the Apple logo at the start up of the browser... though I imagine we wouldn't like it much if Safari had to display the KDE project logo at start up... so... never mind...

[Millennium]

They aren't porting it to GNOME, per se, but to GTK. GTK is a popular GUI toolkit on many Unix operating systems. GNOME is based on GTK, but GTK really got its start with the GIMP (GTK actually stands for "GIMP Tool Kit"). Almost all GNOME apps are GTK apps, but many GTK apps are not GNOME apps; GIMP isn't a GNOME app, for example.

GTK is also gaining popularity in embedded applications, and this may be why Nokia decided to work with it. Mozilla and Minimo (its embedded counterpart) are very good, but they carry a lot of baggage with them which isn't necessarily optimal for embedded stuff. GNOME isn't really optimal for embedded apps either, though there is talk of making a GNOME app around WebCore-GTK.