Very interesting developments lately regarding Apple and Mozilla. At first, it appeared the groups were closer than they appeared. Rumor was that iBrowser (known as Safari now), was going to use then Chimera (now Camino) as it’s basis. Ended up Apple used KHTML, and some claimed it made them “compete”, though most including myself believe any standards compliant engine is good.
Now Pinkerton makes a very interesting find:
Apple has started bundling NSPR and NSS in Panther
From November 3, 2003 @ 10:38 PM
So Apple apparently is providing some sort of Aid for Mozilla technologies. But that’s not all.
David Hyatt notes his work on Safari:
(5) A complete implementation of the XUL box model. Safari on Panther supports the complete XUL box model, including horizontal and vertical boxes, the ability to flex, and the ability to reorder content and reverse content. If you’re building canned content that you control using WebKit, you’ll find a whole new range of layout possibilities at your disposal. Need to create dynamically sized headers and footers and flexible center content? The XUL box model can do that. Need to center an object within the viewport? The XUL box model can do that too.
From October 28, 2003 @ 12:48 AM
Henrik Gemal also notes XUL support in Safari.
Ok, I found it interesting. Perhaps someone else will as well.