(http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080818-nokia-helps-port-firefox-to-qt.html)
This makes me more keen to try out KDE (and Kubuntu). I found Firefox running in KDE ugly. ===== Nokia helps port Firefox to Qt By Ryan Paul | Published: August 18, 2008 - 08:10AM The Firefox web browser has been ported to the Qt widget toolkit through a collaborative development effort by Nokia and Mozilla. This port will facilitate much stronger visual integration between Firefox and KDE-based Linux environments and will also simplify the process of bringing Firefox to mobile platforms that support Qt. [...] Although the Qt toolkit already includes Apple's powerful WebKit HTML rendering engine, Nokia still sees a lot of value in supporting Firefox. During the recent Akademy conference, Nokia developer Oleg Romaxa told KDE's Dot news site that Firefox offers a better browsing experience and that Nokia might have some competitive concerns about Apple's control over WebKit. [...] Qt is already supported on several flavors of mobile Linux and gained support for Windows Mobile in its latest release. Nokia is also bringing Qt to Maemo, its Linux-based software platform that's used on Internet Tablet devices. [...] ===== -- Soh Kam Yung my Google Reader Shared links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/16851815156817689753) my Google Reader Shared SFAS links: (http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/16851815156817689753/label/sfas) _______________________________________________ Slugnet mailing list [email protected] http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet
