I have been authoring web sites for several years now and recently
come to value web standards (as touted by Zeldman and many other web
gurus). I have noticed with frustration that there are so many hacks
(tricks to take advantage of browser buggy-ness) and special rules to
be remembered in order to make sure that any one page displays
properly in the many popular browsers.
This leads me to...
Since the many programmers authoring their own browsers (IE, Firefox,
Mozilla, Opera, Safari, etc.) ultimately have to implement the same
W3C specs, why don't they all work together to develop one engine/DOM
for rendering web content and share it?
The browsers, could simply be differentiated by the
features/interfaces they offer. Wouldn't this shared effort result in
making the web a better place for every one -- both the users and
designers?
Am I missing something?
Sincerely,
Mario T. Lanza
Clarity Information Architecture, Inc.
2004.09 23 2483
Mario T. Lanza wrote: Since the many programmers authoring their own browsers (IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, etc.) ultimately have to implement the same W3C specs, why don't they all work together to develop one engine/DOM for rendering web content and share it?
Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla, Galeon, Epiphany, K-Meleon, IBM Web Browser
for OS/2, Beonex, Camino, DocZilla, Skipstone and Thunderbird (e-mail
client) all share the same open source HTML rendering engine called Gecko.
Safari and Konqueror share another one rendering engine called KHTML.
And Nautilus, Encompass and Evolution (e-mail) share another HTML
rendering engine, GtkHTML.
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Mario T. Lanza wrote: Since the many programmers authoring their own browsers (IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, etc.) ultimately have to implement the same W3C specs,
But there's so much that is not in the spec.
why don't they all work together to develop one engine/DOM for rendering web content and share it?
That's sort of what Mozilla is, isn't it? A group of people, many
volunteers, sharing their work. Since there is no obvious revenue stream
from such a project, I'm sure you can see why MS, Opera, and others are
not so keen on the idea.
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Mario T. Lanza wrote: Since the many programmers authoring their own browsers (IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, etc.) ultimately have to implement the same W3C specs, why don't they all work together to develop one engine/DOM for rendering web content and share it?
All of today's rendering engines -- Gecko, KHTML, Presto, MSIE, Tasman,
etc. -- were created for what were perfectly sane reasons at the time.
You're right that it would probably make sense to merge them now, but
that would mean abandoning lots of code people have worked hard on, not
to mention the effort it would take to get it all working right. And
that's even assuming it's possible to get all of the browser projects to
work together, which seems a little far-fetched.
However, some merging does happen: Safari uses KHTML, an open-source
rendering engine created by the KDE project; Mozilla and Firefox share
the Gecko rendering engine; and WYSIWYG editors like GoLive and
Dreamweaver license Opera's Presto rendering engine for previewing web
pages. Even IE's proprietary rendering engine can be embedded in other
browsers with ActiveX without paying.
On 29 Sep 2004 22:57:55 -0700, ml****@lycos.co m (Mario T. Lanza) posted: I have been authoring web sites for several years now and recently come to value web standards (as touted by Zeldman and many other web gurus). I have noticed with frustration that there are so many hacks (tricks to take advantage of browser buggy-ness) and special rules to be remembered in order to make sure that any one page displays properly in the many popular browsers.
The best "trick" to learn is to avoid doing things that need special
tricks. Good, well thought out, HTML works on just about everything.
Since the many programmers authoring their own browsers (IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, etc.) ultimately have to implement the same W3C specs, why don't they all work together to develop one engine/DOM for rendering web content and share it?
To some degree, some of them do. If you look through the W3C site you'll
see members from various programming organisations are on the committees.
Though when it comes to the cutting edge developments they all believe that
they know best and it'd be tragic if anybody else knew what they're doing.
The browsers, could simply be differentiated by the features/interfaces they offer. Wouldn't this shared effort result in making the web a better place for every one -- both the users and designers?
Am I missing something?
You've missed that many of them *won't* co-operate, and they've missed the
point that it's in everybody's interest for them to co-operate. These are
the problems we face when we let corporations dicate things that they
shouldn't be allowed to.
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Yes, I realize that there is a great deal in the sharing of rendering
engines between certain product. Despite this, there are still
several engines and web developers must still go through the arduous
process of viewing their pages in several browsers to make sure all is
well.
Don't ask me why Star Trek: The Next Generation keeps coming to mind
-- I haven't watched it in years -- but I keep thinking how great it
would be if humanity (despite it's desire to compete in this
capitalistic world) would come together in some areas to work toward
the good of all. Yes, a little idealistic... but still I hope.
It just seems that web developers have to spend countless hours and
learn countless hacks if only to make websites available to the world.
Why should so many have to struggle to learn and solve the same
problems? The real blessing would be to have all web developers work
on their content and business solutions rather than browser hacks.
Long live web standards!
Mario
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at 10:57 PM, ml****@lycos.co m (Mario T. Lanza) said: Since the many programmers authoring their own browsers (IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, etc.) ultimately have to implement the same W3C specs, why don't they all work together to develop one engine/DOM for rendering web content and share it?
Quite a few of them use Gecko. The 800 gorilla isn't interested in
standards, except as something to embrace, extend and extinguish.
Nor is it necessary for everyone to use the same engine. What is
necessary is for the authors of the engines to adhere to standards,
and for the authors of web pages to do likewise.
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On 29 Sep 2004 22:57:55 -0700, ml****@lycos.co m (Mario T. Lanza) wrote: Since the many programmers authoring their own browsers (IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, etc.) ultimately have to implement the same W3C specs, why don't they all work together to develop one engine/DOM for rendering web content and share it?
Because everyone would then suffer from the situation that one gets with
all monopolies: whether due to complacency, arrogance or bickering,
inertia sets in and improvements stop being made. Look at IE: they've
acquired a near monopoly and consequently don't seem to mind that their
browser is outdated and buggy.
The whole idea of web standards is that everyone does *not* need to use
the same browser or engine. Having a single rendering engine is about as
desirable as having a single make of telephone, with different brands
only offering different shaped buttons.
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On 30 Sep 2004 08:41:55 -0700, "Mario T. Lanza" <ml****@lycos.c om>
declared in comp.infosystem s. www.authoring.html: It just seems that web developers have to spend countless hours and learn countless hacks if only to make websites available to the world.
How else are we going to make money? If all browsers rendered everything
the same, anyone could do it!
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Leif K-Brooks wrote: Mario T. Lanza wrote:
Since the many programmers authoring their own browsers (IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, etc.) ultimately have to implement the same W3C specs, why don't they all work together to develop one engine/DOM for rendering web content and share it?
All of today's rendering engines -- Gecko, KHTML, Presto, MSIE, Tasman, etc. -- were created for what were perfectly sane reasons at the time. You're right that it would probably make sense to merge them now, but that would mean abandoning lots of code people have worked hard on, not to mention the effort it would take to get it all working right.
Not true! Last year, I use MyIE2 and switched the rendering engine from
MSIE's Trident to Gecko 1.5 in less than 10 min.
DU
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The site said to use Internet Explorer 5 or better... so I switched to
Mozilla 1.7.3 :)
And that's even assuming it's possible to get all of the browser projects to work together, which seems a little far-fetched.
However, some merging does happen: Safari uses KHTML, an open-source rendering engine created by the KDE project; Mozilla and Firefox share the Gecko rendering engine; and WYSIWYG editors like GoLive and Dreamweaver license Opera's Presto rendering engine for previewing web pages. Even IE's proprietary rendering engine can be embedded in other browsers with ActiveX without paying. This thread has been closed and replies have been disabled. Please start a new discussion. Similar topics |
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