So, in my previous post, I listed some of my motivations for writing the story about Webkit and KHTML. It seems it has not gone fully unnoticed.
You see, when I wrote my article, motivation number one was to have KDE mentioned every time Webkit is mentioned: I know that this is 'in-house', but it's still nice to see the Apple writers over at Ars Technica talking about KDE in their Webkit articles now.
Plus, that article is about the Webkit project as an open source project, not as a pet project of Apples. It's great that way.
In addition, I like the new, officially stated goals of the webkit project: "In addition, we strive to create a courteous, welcoming environment that feels approachable to newcomers. WebKit maintains a public IRC chat room and public mailing list where the ideas of contributors both new and old are heard and discussed with equal weight." and later "We want to make it reasonable to port WebKit to a variety of desktop, mobile, embedded and other platforms. We will provide the infrastructure to do this with tight platform integration, reusing native platform services where appropriate..."
I think that with this sort of new-found openness on their part, the Webkit team is trying to put their best foot forward.
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