On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Rony gnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 06 January 2011 07:13 PM, Shamit Verma wrote:
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 6:07 PM, Ronygnulinuxist@gmail.com wrote:
So it boils down to the fact that if a browser is willing to give up its identity and let the individual hardware makers use its code but add their own label to it then it will be more popular.
Don't get that... You are referring to WebKit or Opera?
WebKit. It lost its identity but gained popularity.
Don't agree with that. Two reasons :
1. WebKit is Open Source (LGPG and BSD). That is primary reason for adoption by everyone. 2. WebKit is clearly identified in User Agent strings (E.g. Nokia6303classic/2.0 (06.21) Profile/MIDP-2.1 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/420+)
And despite LGPL+BSD, every major company (Apple/Google/Nokia) commits into codebase. Since its in their own interest.
E.g. if Nokia fixes a JavaScript bug and does not commit, it will have to re-fix it every-time they sync code from main repository.
-Shamit