On 23 Jun 2009, at 17:50, Uros Nedic wrote: > > From my perspective, all we have to do is to port WebKit, and > try to negotiate joint porting with Apple of Safari to > OpenSolaris. If I'd have unlimited time, I'd do it alone:). > For now this is just a small suggestion.
Setting aside the question of how interested Apple would be in such a venture, it would seem to me to be a far better idea to wrap a GNOME- friendly browser around WebKit, rather than port something to the GNOME desktop that follows Apple's UI guidelines. Such a browser already exists, and it's called Epiphany: <http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany > It hasn't made it into pkg.opensolaris.org as yet, but blastwave seems to have it. Cheeri, Calum. > -----Original Message----- > From: desktop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org > [mailto:desktop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of dick > hoogendijk > Sent: June 23, 2009 6:33 PM > To: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Firefox 3.5 rc2/Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 > contrib. > builds are available for OpenSolaris/Solaris 10 > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:15:23 +0800 > Alfred Peng <Alfred.Peng at Sun.COM> wrote: > >> On 06/23/09 23:30, Paul Gress wrote: >>> One item that is over looked on this analysis is Opera has the >>> E-Mail integrated with the browser. If you want it to be accurate >>> you also need to open Thunderbird (along with Firefox) and keep it >>> idle. >>> >>> >> This might not be the best choice as Firefox and Thunderbird have >> their own copy of Gecko each. However, browser and email parts for >> Opera share some lower level libraries I guess. Maybe it's better to >> compare SeaMonkey with Opera? > > You are probably right. Thunderbird takes its time ;-) As does FF3 > Opera > (browser PLUS email) start very quickly and the engine is fast too. > Alas, it > still is not compatible with (a very few) sites. > I.e www.hyves.nl (a dutch social network) works but not all options > do. > It's coming though. I'm curious how v10 will be. Don't want the beta. > I'll just wait a little longer. > > -- > Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D > + http://nagual.nl/ | nevada / OpenSolaris 2009.06 release All that's > + really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol) > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:calum.benson at sun.com OpenSolaris Desktop Team http://blogs.sun.com/calum +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems
