Apple today introduced the third "pretty good but not all the way there" browser for Mac OS X.
In prior discussions I had advocated Apple buying out OW if it were to build its own browser: Briefly because of the small code base, the objective-C/cocoa architecture, and the fact that it's competitive with other browsers using a small fraction of the development resources others have - (imagine what could be done with Apple-size resources behind OW development)
Other advocated Apple adopting Gecko in one form or another (perhaps because they saw it as the end-all-be-all of rendering engines).
Apple went another way and chose an engine few of us have heard much about.
What does this mean for our other OS X browsers? Can they survive yet another competitor (esp. one that has the Apple seal of approval on it?).
For now it seems clear that Chimera and OW both have features that Safari lacks and needs, and that whatever speed benefits Safari currently has, it's problems with https and the like leave Chimera and OW the edge (IMO).
But for how long?
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