[Slugnet] Nokia helps port Firefox to Qt

[Soh Kam Yung]

(http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080818-nokia-helps-port-firefox-to-qt.html)

This makes me more keen to try out KDE (and Kubuntu).  I found Firefox
running in KDE ugly.
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Nokia helps port Firefox to Qt
By Ryan Paul | Published: August 18, 2008 - 08:10AM

The Firefox web browser has been ported to the Qt widget toolkit
through a collaborative development effort by Nokia and Mozilla. This
port will facilitate much stronger visual integration between Firefox
and KDE-based Linux environments and will also simplify the process of
bringing Firefox to mobile platforms that support Qt.

[...]

Although the Qt toolkit already includes Apple's powerful WebKit HTML
rendering engine, Nokia still sees a lot of value in supporting
Firefox. During the recent Akademy conference, Nokia developer Oleg
Romaxa told KDE's Dot news site that Firefox offers a better browsing
experience and that Nokia might have some competitive concerns about
Apple's control over WebKit.

[...]

Qt is already supported on several flavors of mobile Linux and gained
support for Windows Mobile in its latest release. Nokia is also
bringing Qt to Maemo, its Linux-based software platform that's used on
Internet Tablet devices.

[...]
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