Je trouve ça cool que apple se décide a utiliser le moteur khtml de konqueror pour son browser standard OS X. Dommage tout de même que chimera (et donc Gecko) n'aient pas été adoptés par apple, car ils deviennent de plus en plus populaires dans le monde mac... En tous cas, ce browser respectera les standards, ce qui est une bonne nouvelle. Ca fera un peu baisser la part de marché d'internet explorer sur mac ce qui est en soit une bonne nouvelle Selon Jobs, le browser en question s'appelle safari et il charge les pages plus vite qu'internet explorer (pas dur me direz sur mac
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Apple Launches Browser Based on KHTML Engine
Jan 7, 2003, 19 :00 UTC (2 Talkback[s]) (412 reads)
(Other stories by Brian Proffitt)
Continuing his penchant for making major company announcements during his Macworld keynote addresses, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has announced the immediate beta release of Safari, an OS X browser that is based on the KDE Project's KHTML code.
KHTML is the same HTML parser/renderer used in the popular Linux browser Konqueror.
Calling it the first major new browser release in the last five years, Jobs introduced Safari as a "turbo browser for OS X." The rationale behind the release was to improve the speed of browser clients that are currently made for the OS X platform, Jobs said.
During the presentation made at Macworld Expo earlier this morning, Jobs compared page download times and showed that Safari's download times were markedly faster, according to Apple's iBench benchmark tests.
"It's three times faster than Internet Explorer on the Mac," he said. Jobs also indicated that JavaScript launch times were faster.
Jobs emphasized that Safari is based on standards, coming from an open-source HTML rendering engine that he identified as KHTML.
Anticipating negative reactions to using open source, Jobs stated: "Some people have a problem with open source, we think it's great."
Internet Explorer for the Mac has been the default Web browser on new Macs since 1997, as part of a five-year technology agreement between Microsoft and Apple--an agreement that expired last year.
No information has been formally released on Safari, either from Apple or from Macworld Expo organizers, so it is not clear yet what license the new browser will be released under. Safari is apparently being maintained under some sort of open-source license, as Jobs said that the company would release all of the modifications Apple made to KHTML later today.
The browser, which will run on Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) will be released as a beta later today, Jobs said.