Comments on: Adobe Apollo Uses WebKit

By: Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Welcome to Planet WebKit

Surfin’ Safari - Blog Archive » Welcome to Planet WebKit — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 07:19:31 +0000

[...] being added to technical discussions of engine internals to announcements of WebKit being used in entirely new places. But the web is a big place, and we want to make it easier to find the many great [...]

By: Adobe Apollo « dezone

Adobe Apollo « dezone — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:14:15 +0000

[...] sviluppate con tecnologie come HTML, JavaScript e Flash. Ne ho trovato traccia nel blog Surfin’ Safari, dove se ne parla perché Apollo utilizza il WebKit di [...]

By: gelosilente

gelosilente — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 09:24:30 +0000

jezel> i think the same! hope that adobe is working for put thei ecmascript in the javascript core.
will be very strange if not.

By: jezell

jezell — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:23:28 +0000

Yes, but they could have donated it to the community by giving it to WebKit as well. Instead, they gave Mozilla all the glory and are donating all the resources to Mozilla to help get it integrated. Maybe we will see it in WebKit eventually, but nothing has been announced about it yet. I assume Adobe will want to integrate it into their own WebKit based build anyway, since Apollo will want the same version of JS running inside the SWF and inside the HTML. However, does the fact that they haven’t announced that they are integrating the engine and giving the code back to WebKit mean that they are just going to integrate it and keep their changes in their private tree? I hope not.

By: jsebrech

jsebrech — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:24:46 +0000

They didn’t donate it to mozilla. They donated it to the open source community, under a Free license, and mozilla is hosting the source code and organizing its development. It is probably even possible for the webkit devs to use the donated code for their own Javascript 2 implementation (I believe the goal here is to get a single codebase for all ECMAScript 4 languages).

By: jezell

jezell — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:18:59 +0000

So how do you feel about Adobe ripping your rendering engine for Apollo and then giving their VM to Mozilla and helping the competition squash you in return?

By: cosmix.org | Safari rocks!

cosmix.org | Safari rocks! — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:15:58 +0000

[...] haps the most prominent of them being OmniGroup’s OmniWeb. As reported by the WebKit blog, Adobe recently adopted WebKit for its Apollo tool. You can download and try the WebKit Nightlies from here. Gi [...]

By: jsebrech

jsebrech — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:36:09 +0000

I’d like native SVG support in flash in general, not just in apollo. I was tasked for work to build a web-based CAD application that could render autocad floor plans as a set of objects with intelligent visualization, and ended up having to write my own SVG parser/renderer in actionscript (tied to server-side SVG generation from the source DXF in PHP). SWF files are just not well suited for the interchange of vector data, especially if one of the requirements is being able to edit the vector graphics client-side.

Plugin support for webkit in apollo is not something I think would be relevant though. I doubt the need for them would arise with the sort of applications people are likely to build on the apollo platform.

By: mikechambers

mikechambers — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:23:20 +0000

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I am interested in what we have seen so far but Iwould like to see native support in Apollo
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Native support of what?

mike chambers

mesh@adobe.com

By: james

james — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:23:43 +0000

Hey Chris,

I am interested in what we have seen so far but Iwould like to see native support in Apollo. Webkit is a fine selection, but it shouldn’t be limited if you want really rich applications.