In the interest of interesting discussion, I saw this interesting tidbit today on a Debian developer's personal blog [1]: Debian has managed to completely decouple XUL from Mozilla suite. So you can now install things which use Gecko's rendering engine without installing the 30 MB beast along with it. Good news for Gnome.
[1] http://np237.livejournal.com/6229.html
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 22:49, Jason Clinton wrote:
In the interest of interesting discussion, I saw this interesting tidbit today on a Debian developer's personal blog [1]: Debian has managed to completely decouple XUL from Mozilla suite. So you can now install things which use Gecko's rendering engine without installing the 30 MB beast along with it. Good news for Gnome.
So what takes up the 30 MB if not the engine? Don't see how this is that good of news for Gnome... They're still stuck with the inferior Gecko for now. Maybe if someone ports their browsers to use Gtk-WebKit...
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 02:22 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
So what takes up the 30 MB if not the engine?
The web browser, email, calendar, address book and chat, of course ...
Don't see how this is that good of news for Gnome... They're still stuck with the inferior Gecko for now. Maybe if someone ports their browsers to use Gtk-WebKit...
Care to explain?
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 02:58, Jason Clinton wrote:
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 02:22 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
So what takes up the 30 MB if not the engine?
The web browser, email, calendar, address book and chat, of course ...
I don't know... don't most browser + email + calendar + address book programs come up well under 30 MB even if separate? A quick du of KDE's programs turns up 10 MB (yes, counting the specific libraries except khtml).
Don't see how this is that good of news for Gnome... They're still stuck with the inferior Gecko for now. Maybe if someone ports their browsers to use Gtk-WebKit...
Care to explain?
Gecko is the best for Windows. Once you drop that OS, you have KHTML/WebKit, which is much more standards compliant.
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 12:55 +0000, Luke-Jr wrote:
I don't know... don't most browser + email + calendar + address book programs come up well under 30 MB even if separate? A quick du of KDE's programs turns up 10 MB (yes, counting the specific libraries except khtml).
I don't understand what you're talking about... I'm pointing out that you DON'T have to install them anymore. What are you saying?
Gecko is the best for Windows. Once you drop that OS, you have KHTML/WebKit, which is much more standards compliant.
I'm sorry but you clearly have no idea what you're talking about.
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