Because KHTML is the most standards compliant renderer
I agree that this is very important. We all know the IE-only websites. I'm using Safari a lot, but sometimes i have to fall back on Firefox for the webs that don't show well in Safari. I know, i know, that's a problem of that particular website and that should be fixed, but if the maker of the website doesn't want to fix it because he doesn't care about Webkit-browser users, it's me that needs to solve the problem. And Mozilla works for me. Slow, but it works. So in reality i would prefer that they optimize the Mozilla code to be as fast and lightweight as Webkit is than to develop a third browser for the N800.
But that's just me.
Well technically Safari is based on Webkit... this new OWB browser is not based on Safari at all, although it has some commonality with Safari due to also being based on Webkit.
And there is already a WebKit project underway for the N800, making OWB the second attempt at WebKit and the fourth browser on Maemo (excluding Lynx!)
Is there info online on that other Webkit project for the N800 that you mention?
I've tried compiling this browser in scratchbox and it errors out during the ICU make in the X86 section.
Meh, I guess it's not even ready for alpha testing.
Not understanding why they're forking out of an existing webkit project though.
Where's the "official" webkit browser site?
Is there info online on that other Webkit project for the N800 that you mention?
-- Denis
There are a few links in the mailing list discussion I referenced in my previous post (#4) but other than that, information is light. Seemingly WebKit can be compiled for the N800 by pulling the code from the main WebKit svn. If you are interested in WebKit for Maemo, take a look at the official WebKit project http://webkit.org.
As far as this new "OWB" browser is concerned, I'm not really sure I understand why sand-labs.org have seen fit to fork WebKit in order to develop a Maemo build when one already exists. It all seems pretty foolish to me.
sand-labs.org seems to be an open source incubator owned/operated/supported by an outfit called Pleyo (PDF Press Release). I suppose sand-labs.org is similar to Maemo/Nokia in that respect, however I've never heard of Pleyo and I'm unsure of where they intend to take this browser, particularly as they don't seem interested in contributing to the main branch of WebKit along with everyone else.
Could this be the third engine option (greyed out) available as a selection under Opera menu Tools/Advanced?
I installed MicroB thinking that would enable the browser engines of Opera or MicroB to be selectable on the fly but the drop down menu selections are totally different now and this option is lost.
