Hey All I am building an App using Layout engine ( Gecko or Webkit ) . The App will be tightly integrated with the browser, it would be an Addon/Extenstion . As far now, on basis of articles over internet
- WebKit is an extremely lightweight renderer that is often praised for its tight and clean code base, excellent standards-compliance, and small memory footprint. - Gecko, which originated at Netscape , is often criticized for its large and infamously complex code base. Gecko has always been extraordinarily powerful, but its richest and most impressive capabilities originally came at a high cost in size, complexity, and memory overhead. - Gecko 1.9 uses the cross-platform Cairo rendering framework <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061212-8409.html>. This greatly improved SVG support simplified many aspects of the code base and facilitated some cool features. The overhaul also included significant refactoring of the reflow algorithm, making it possible for Gecko to pass the Acid 2 test. (http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2008/09/mozilla-committed-to-gecko.ars) - Gecko is now very solid and no longer lags behind WebKit. >From still from my study, i felt, webkit is better, but i will miss millions of users using Firefox if i dont build on Gecko. Can someone help me out in deciding or share their views on Gecko vs Webkit. Thanks - Ankur saxena _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
