Re:The Linux desktop experience is killing Linux on the desktop
by sho_hn on Saturday June 11, 2011 @07:35PM
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> They continue to use konquerer and KJS (built into the core desktop) rather than webkit or V8.
FWIW, this is somewhat incorrect.
First of, Konqueror is an application, not a browser engine; you're thinking of KHTML.
Now, it's true that KDE is still developing KHTML and KJS (and it has to, considering KDE commits to ABI/API stability within a major release series and the Qt port of WebKit wasn't close to ready by the time KDE 4.0 was released).
However, Konqueror offers support for using either KHTML/KJS or QtWebkit/JavaScriptCore - technically, both are just KPart components, along with the Okular PDF viewer and various others Konqueror embeds to display documents of various sorts - and some other parts of the "core desktop" use WebKit exclusively (e.g. the Webview and Web Slice widgets).
FWIW, this is somewhat incorrect.
First of, Konqueror is an application, not a browser engine; you're thinking of KHTML.
Now, it's true that KDE is still developing KHTML and KJS (and it has to, considering KDE commits to ABI/API stability within a major release series and the Qt port of WebKit wasn't close to ready by the time KDE 4.0 was released).
However, Konqueror offers support for using either KHTML/KJS or QtWebkit/JavaScriptCore - technically, both are just KPart components, along with the Okular PDF viewer and various others Konqueror embeds to display documents of various sorts - and some other parts of the "core desktop" use WebKit exclusively (e.g. the Webview and Web Slice widgets).