"The fact that MacOS is also a UNIX platform makes me think that you could, perhaps, expect WebKit to work a bit better than you might expect."
I completely agree with this statement. To be more precise, I think that SUN has to approach to Apple since they handle licence for rendering TTF fonts on smaller resolutions. Without that licence we could not expect better font rendering. Or maybe there are some genius engineer who could invent some other algorithm to process TTF 'programs' (because, basically, they *are* programs for TTF VM), other than one licensed from the Apple. Regards, Uros Nedic -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:desktop-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Brian Cameron Sent: June 24, 2009 9:20 PM To: Calum Benson Cc: Desktop Discuss Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Firefox 3.5 rc2/Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 contrib. builds are available for OpenSolaris/Solaris 10 Calum: > 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. Since OpenSolaris does not include libgpod or gpod, I'd say that iPod support is probably pretty bad on 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.) The fact that MacOS is also a UNIX platform makes me think that you could, perhaps, expect WebKit to work a bit better than you might expect. Whether it would be better than the Windows version, I'm not sure, though. Brian _______________________________________________ desktop-discuss mailing list desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
