On 23 Jun 2009, at 19:06, Uros Nedic wrote: > If Apple did it for Windows why OpenSolaris would be problem?
Because Apple has a vested interest in the Windows market, due to the huge number of iPod and iPhone users who only own computers that run Windows. And presumably Apple feels that offering those people a better, free browser alternative is a good way to entice some fraction of them to use more Apple products. The number of iPod and iPhone users who only own computers that run OpenSolaris are, I'd imagine, vanishingly small. So there is little incentive for Apple to port anything to OpenSolaris. (And IMHO, the Windows versions of iTunes and Safari not only look rather out-of-place on Windows, but are considerably buggier than their Mac equivalents. I can't imagine any OpenSolaris versions would fare much better.) Cheeri, Calum. > -----Original Message----- > From: desktop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org > [mailto:desktop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Calum > Benson > Sent: June 23, 2009 7:21 PM > To: Desktop Discuss > Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Firefox 3.5 rc2/Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 > contrib. > builds are available for OpenSolaris/Solaris 10 > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
