Re: gecko vs. gtkhtml

[Michael Knepher <michael knepher gmail com>]

On 11/17/05, Adam Hooper <adamh densi com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 22:40 +0100, Alexander Nagel wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> > i don't want to mess anybody up but i'm just curious why epiphany uses gecko and not gtkhtml?
> > Is gtkhtml so bad for a browser?
>
> In short... yes. Unfathomably horrible. It just doesn't have what it
> takes; it's written do display emails.
>
> It wouldn't be difficult to plug in a gtkhtml renderer instead of gecko.
> There was one for Galeon a long time ago, before the fork. But it
> renders badly.

There's also work going on to replace gtkhtml with gecko in evolution.
I believe the composer is the main challenge at this point.