[sclug] RUG 6 May 03 notes

[Will Dickson]

Leon Ward wrote:
> I think MUA choice is all down to personal preference.
> Kmail / Mozilla / Evolution / mutt / pine / whatever
> 
> 
> BTW / Does Konq use gecko or its own rendering engine?

It's own renderer, called KHTML. FWIW Apple are currently building their 
own browser for Mac (Safari) which is also based on KHTML. Various 
reasons why they chose KHTML over Gecko have been proposed; one view 
from a Gecko hacker (can't remember the exact attribution) is that Gecko 
is internally severely optimised to minimise the footprint of the render 
tree, which makes the code complex. (This is one of the issues they 
intend to tackle after Moz 1.4).

Personally I like Mozilla 'cos it's genuinely cross-platform; I work in 
a mixed environment so this matters to me. Presumably the KDE-specific 
UAs trade this for better integration? Plus it does everything I need, 
doesn't have any bugs that bite / sting, and eats spam :-)

Will.