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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 01:49 PM EDT |
"Webkit is LGPL, which automatically disqualifies it from being utilized in
any manner, by any Microsoft product."
That's a bold statement...
Microsoft used to distribute some GPL'd utilities with Windows 3.X, I believe
they still did with the Windows 9X series. And they did it correctly by
providing the Source code for download from their servers.
It is only in recent times that they suddenly can't face the GPL.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 29 2012 @ 08:05 PM EDT |
The issue is not "using webkit" itself, but copying the webkit "API" with an
independent implementation.
"-webkit-" CSS extensions have become so
popular that Microsoft, Opera,
and Mozilla feel they have to support them. Not
all of these extensions have
been standardized through W3C yet. And, developers
tend to only test
mobile sites against iPhone/Android, which leaves less
popular browsers out.
So now the web has been unfortunately polluted with
'proprietary' webkit CSS
declarations. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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