Apple Snubs Mozilla – Kinda

The new Mac browser, Safari, is based on the KHTML rendering engine. This is the same one used by the KDE Konqueror browser in xWindows. Apple says they made the right choice but the Mozilla guys are a little pissed.

Like most proud developers they have read between the lines to discover the source of the problem. This is how they see it.
"Translated through a de-weaselizer, (Melton's e-mail) says: 'Even though some of us used to work on Mozilla, we have to admit that the Mozilla code is a gigantic, bloated mess, not to mention slow, and with an internal API so flamboyantly baroque that frankly we can't even comprehend where to begin,'" Zawinski wrote"
It would appear that they aren't taking it very well.

I asked our resident Mac expert, Talon, what he thought of the new Safari browser.
"It's got a small footprint, it's FAST at rendering HTML, and has good broad support for standards and technologies. It's based on the KHTML open source code base so it will continue to evolve and improve. As it's still a beta it does have some rough edges, noteably poor Flash performance, and it's missing the auto fill form feature of Mac IE and the tabs feature of Mozilla. I'd say it's a great start, fix the last items I mentioned and it WILL BE my browser of choice!"
So there you have it!.

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