What does Safari mean for OmniWeb?

[Paul Buckley]

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 09:57  PM, Ken Case wrote:

>  the wonderful news for OmniWeb is that Apple has based it on a fast, 
> compatible (and small!) rendering engine which is tuned for Mac OS X, 
> and which they are making available to the entire Mac OS X development 
> community! ...we may be able to reach our compatibility and speed 
> goals for OmniWeb much more quickly than when we were working alone, 
> and then return our focus to doing what we do best:  providing a rich 
> browsing experience.

Good answer!
Thanks for the word.

btw,I don't recall KHTML being talked about on this list as an 
alternative but instead it seemed that you were working on your own 
rendering engine for 5.0. Did the big house scoop the little shop using 
open source?

can anyone here comment on KHTML?

-PB


-and one more thing--what's the real story about the icon? was it that 
profitable?