IIRC, I think there were also licensing issues involved with separately distributing the gecko rendering engine outside the full mozilla package. I would assume this would change once mozilla completes transition to full dual licensing under MPL and GPL.
-Dan On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Daniel Reuter wrote: > Hello there, > > After all this discussion recently on the list about opera for linux and > galeon/skipstone, I looked at the galeon/skipstone webpages. So a question > came to my mind: > They both use the gecko rendering engine from Mozilla. They both need a > full install of Mozilla on the machine to work (this is a lot of overhead > on a small harddisk, considering the fact, that you perhaps are not able > to use Mozilla, if you have small amount of RAM, but you may be able to > use galeon/skipstone - so Mozilla would take up several Megs of > diskspace, just to provide the rendering engine). > Wouldn't it be possible to take just the gecko engine and incorporate it > into a new light weight browser, so there would be no need to have Mozilla > installed? > Why don't the developers of galeon/skipstone follow this approach? > Anybody knowing of a browser doing this? > > Regards, > Daniel > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >