What does Safari mean for OmniWeb?

[Eugene Lee]

On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 06:57:38PM -0800, Ken Case wrote:
: 
: But the most interesting thing about Safari where OmniWeb is concerned is
: not the application itself:  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!  (For details, see
: <http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/webcore/>.)  This means that
: 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.

Indeed!  This means that OW can leverage all the benefits from WebCore
and JavaScriptCore, which Apple has dedicated a special team for.  And
the OW coders can focus less on problems with various Mozilla projects
and more on features.  In a way, this is how many people felt about the
Chimera project, writing a clean new browser based on Mozilla cores.  If
OW can do the same yet maintain (and add more) features by leveraging
WebCore and JavaScriptCore, then I will continue to be a happy *paying*
OmniWeb user.

Ken, still taking suggestions for OW 5?  :-)


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Eugene Lee
eugene at anime.net