Push Button Paradise

While everyone is busy talking about the Intel thing, this is reported by Hyatt. Apple had been criticized, often unfairly IMHO, about not being open enough or engaging the existing community around KHTML, upon which Safari is based.

In any case, Apple has addressed the negative perceptions, going out of their way to open things up. WebKit, WebCore, and JavaScriptCore are all open, with world-readable CVS (including full history). It's live, and can be built today.

This raises two questions for me: 1) What cool new things will come out of this? For example, would it now be easier for someone to make somethiing like Greasemonkey for Safari? 2) What effect will this have on the KHTML and KJS projects?

One thing is sure: opening up a project like this leads to unforseen benefits as a huge array of users of all stripes unleash their creative powers. Let's all congratulate Apple on this smart move. -m

posted at: 09:13 | under: 2005-06 | 0 comment(s)