Things About The Chrome Release That Annoy Me

Posted September 3, 2008
Filed under: Kubasik | Tags: , , , , |

Ok, I don’t want a long rant about this, but 2 things that bother me. 

  1. We never care about EULA’s. Why care about this one? It’s an open source project so even the most absurd clause ever in the EULA is effectively unenforceable. Stop whining, let the lawyers tell us what it means and stop speculating when your an engineer or journalist and not a lawyer.
  2. It’s not ‘Apple’s Webkit’ I hate that a great open source project with a lot of companies and contributors behind it gets completely attributed to Apple. While I appreciate that not everyone is going to get credit in every sentence, can we offer some semblance of recognition that Apple is not the only organization working on the Webkit platform? 

Ok, thats all, just wanted to get it out of my system.

9 comments so far

  1. RyanTheRobot on September 3, 2008

    I’d like to add 2 things about Chrome that annoy me:

    1. no middle mouse button click + scroll. I use this all the time when I’m reading websites with a lot of text and I keep trying to do it in Chrome.

    2. …

    3. I love it almost too much. Can I count that?

    yeah that’s pretty much it.

  2. Tack on September 3, 2008

    The author of http://tapthehive.com/discuss/This_Post_Not_Made_In_Chrome_Google_s_EULA_Sucks is a lawyer.

  3. Benjamin Otte on September 3, 2008

    I find it interesting that you say “lots of companies” are behind Apple. Most of the code is probably still written by KDE people.

  4. Ian McKellar on September 3, 2008

    Last time I checked it was KDE’s WebKit, since they did a lot of the initial hard work. Then again, I guess having Apple in your blog post gives you better adwords than KDE.

  5. ethana2 on September 3, 2008

    Can’t wait to see a recompiled, EULA-less binary in intrepid backports repos…

    Is gOS going to make this their default browser?

  6. Kevin Kubasik on September 3, 2008

    Yeah, it is largely KDE, but there are now lots of contributors to WebKit. My point is more that as a _community_ driven project, there are now dozens of contributors, not just Apple, Google, Adobe or KDE. Its everyone, everywhere.

  7. Nicolas on September 3, 2008

    Technically, it’s as much KDE’s as Apple’s Webkit. Webkit is based on KHTML (a KDE project), but so many fixes and improvements have been contributed by Apple then by the community (when WWebkit was made opensource) that is has not much in common with KHTML anymore…

  8. Janne on September 4, 2008

    Like it or not, WebKit is largely Apple’s baby. Yes, KDE deserves HUGE amount of the credit, since WebKit is built on the shoulders of KHTML. But the two have been diverging since. If we look at WebKit, we can see that most of the developers are employed by Apple, Apple is the primary user of WebKit, hell even WebKits logo and the name of their blog is based on Safari!

    To claim that WebKit and Apple are totally unrelated and separate is…. well, dumb. And complaining about calling WebKit “Apple’s Webkit” is splitting hairs in the max.

  9. gameboy on September 4, 2008

    for the second point said that to http://www.webkit.com ’cause :”Welcome to the website for the WebKit Open Source Project!
    WebKit is an open source web browser engine. WebKit is also the name of the Mac OS X system framework version of the engine that’s used by Safari, Dashboard, Mail, and many other OS X applications. “


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