Re: Notes about WebCore

FROM : John Siracusa
DATE : Wed Jan 08 22:26:21 2003

On 1/8/03 2:52 PM, Philippe Mougin wrote:
> Before the Safari release, Omniweb was the only web browser using Cocoa
> extensively (even more than Safari), but they announced a while ago
> that they were going to write their own, lightweight, UI layer because
> of bad Cocoa performance when dealing with long and complex pages.


When did they announce this?  They did say they were changing the layout
engine for OW5 to stop using NSViews as their unit of page construction
(they apparently ended up with way too many relatively heavyweight NSViews
in complex pages).  But I'm pretty sure they will continue to use native
Cocoa widgets (text boxes, pop-up menus, etc.) in web pages.

> WebCore seems designed as an embeddable framework, which is quite
> significant for Cocoa developers because it shall give them world-class
> HTML processing and rendering capacities for their own applications.


*cough* Mail! :)

-John
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