dot.KDE: aKademy Hackers Port Mozilla to Qt/KDE

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 13, 2004

“Among the most exciting things to come out of aKademy, the
recent KDE Community World Summit, is a Qt port of Mozilla’s Gecko
rendering engine. This will give Gecko the full native look and
feel of KDE/Qt, and make it available as a KPart, where it can
provide an alternative HTML renderer for Konqueror.

“‘This is the best of both worlds for KDE’ said Lars Knoll of
the KHTML project. ‘Integrating Gecko side by side with our
existing renderer opens a lot of doors, without any compromise of
the hard work and clean design that make KHTML what it is…'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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