6.4. KHTML/Safari
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KHTML is the HTML-rendering engine developed by the KDE development team.
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Based on the Qt toolkit.
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Open source, under LGPL.
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Apple used it as a basis for their Safari browser, which is the default
browser for Mac OS X.
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Market share: a small percent of the UNIX workstations, and a relatively
large percent of people using Mac OS X.
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Made a policy of trying to support MSIE extensions to the standard (so
MSIE-only sites will be compatible), as long as they don't contradict the
W3C standards. (still many sites break.)
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Historically, many bugs were present, but the situation will hopefully
improve in the future.
Verdict
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If your client workstation is Windows, you may have problems testing it. (
KDE may or may not be ported to cygwin and a Win32-based X-Windows server).
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The problem is that many pages can break in it because of its many bugs.
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I recommend testing in it, but it's not absolutely necessary.
Written by Shlomi Fish