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if it is based on webkit it's just safari with a different shell, if you consider this a seperate browser that is going to drive innovation than you can also consider all the internet explorer shell browsers like maxthon as such

well, it seems they have borrowed codes out of both WebKit and Firefox, and have written certain things completely from the ground up (the V8 JavaScript engine). It sounds like they have forked the code quite a lot, that's the beauty of open-source. When you make an Trident shell, you have to build it around the mshtml.dll, using public APIs to access its functionalities, there may be some ways to do some hacks, but that's it. With open-source, however, you can take the code and do whatever you want, provided you have the time and resource to do that. Google obviously has. It looks like they have thrown away the JavaScriptCore and coded their own JavaScript engine, and may have made a lot of modifications with the WebCore. So it's definitely different from those Trident shells.

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if it is based on webkit it's just safari with a different shell, if you consider this a seperate browser that is going to drive innovation than you can also consider all the internet explorer shell browsers like maxthon as such

The different between this and maxthon, is that they actually have the code and can change components.

For example, the windows port of WebKit has custom widgets, font rendering, network libraries and drawing code, Google can (and has apparently) swap all those out for more native/open source things. (I hope they used the win32 sub-port that used more open source libaries, like Cairo instead of CoreGraphics)

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The more browsers that use webkit the better. Its a shame safari is utter crap in windows, this should be quite a nice alternative... can't wait!

I won't say its utter crap, but the rendering is awesome! I dumped FireFox for Safari because of the speed at which it renders. Google seems to be doing everything for their very first release.....at least in theory....

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if it is based on webkit it's just safari with a different shell, if you consider this a seperate browser that is going to drive innovation than you can also consider all the internet explorer shell browsers like maxthon as such

Not quite. Maxthon and IE is different since IE is closed source but can be accessed via api. webkit is opensource i believe so they'll have more flexibility would moulding it into their own offering.

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But on the flip side of that coin: There's already a billion linux distros. What's one more?

To each their own... that's the beauty of it.

It's also its major drawback. http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/2008/07/fa...-of-choice.html

Chrome:

Looks good. The UI looks like it could do with a touch up but hopefully Google will allow plugins to do this.

It'd be nice for WebKit to support an XML-based markup language like XUL... would allow for a firefox-like shell around webkit. Ideal IMO.

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