Talk:Gecko (layout engine)

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[edit] SecurityFocus cite

On 01 Nov 2004, this article was cited in a SecurityFocus article on phishing. Securiger 06:50, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Format of the page title

Shouldn't this page be called Gecko (layout engine) to match the related pages Trident (layout engine), Tasman (layout engine), and Presto (layout engine)? -Rjo 09:23, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)

It probably should. I'll do that now. αγδεε(τ) 23:20, 2004 Nov 25 (UTC)

[edit] Gecko Mozilla rendering engine

The content in this page, while tentatively accurate, is misleading. The fact is that "Gecko" is not the official name, but Netscape's branded name. "Gecko" is used to describe Mozilla's NGLayout and XPFE. Please see http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/gecko.html

I will eventually get around to trying to correct this (unless someone else volunteers :-)?).

That link is to a press release from seven years ago. For the past five years I've been using Mozilla browsers, Mozilla developers have called the layout engine "Gecko." I can come up with plenty of recent references if you can't find them yourself. -- Schapel 05:17, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

they use that because they are used to it but it's not the name of the layout engine anymore, unless they change the name at their site and here's a quote of the name in that page "New Layout (Gecko) The goal of the New Layout project is to create a fast, small, standards-based layout engine designed for performance and portability." and gecko is in those parentheses show that it was called that way before and not now.

The website is simply not updated well enough. The commonly used name is indeed Gecko. --asqueella 18:57, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/faq.html#What%20is might be useful. — Ian Moody (talk) 13:17, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] PDF on Linux only

According to Stuart Parmenter, it's likely PDF export will be available on Linux only (cf. http://www.pavlov.net/blog/archives/2006/01/mozilla_cairo_u.html#comment-381). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.159.119.11 (talk • contribs) 02:54, August 19, 2006.

There is no longer any impediment to using cairo for PDF export on all platforms. The dependency on FreeType for generating PDF files was removed in cairo 1.2.2 released August 8, 2006 http://www.cairographics.org/news/cairo-1.2.2.

[edit] Main Image

Wouldn't it make more sense for the main article image to be of Firefox not Epiphany, I'm an Epiphany user myself but I would of thought that it would be more logical for the main article image to be of the most popular gecko engine browser with epiphany/[insert other browser here] being examples of other browsers using it. gord

[edit] External link

I'm not sure why was this link [1] added to this page. There are tens of thousands of pages related to mozilla, doesn't mean we should list all of them in the article. Can someone enlighten me? --asqueella 01:30, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Link to commercial app in "Other apps" section

I'm the product manager for Accept 360, one of the few (we believe) commercial apps that is implemented using the Gecko engine. I put a link to Accept 360 in this article (in the Other Applications" section) about a year ago, but it was removed in October 2006, without any comment. My thought was that the existence of a commercial application using XUL was relevant. On the other hand, I have a personal stake in the product. What's the consensus of this page's stakeholders on the appropriateness of my adding the link back?

Thanks!

Nils Davis 19:54, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Table for Versions

It would be very useful to add a table what version is used in which browser (only main browsers) with major changes... (gecko1.0/1.8/1.9 etc. and what i missed)

i was surfing the wiki of the comparrision of layout_engines and saw in these tables that there are support for different standards for different version of geckos and had no comparrision for gecko! 79.211.233.83 16:17, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I proposed something similar in Moz Application Suite, "Section - A collective name for all Mozilla-based browsers":
I was just wondering if a comprehensive table of version numbers of all related browsers might be drawn up? Looking at the release history in the SeaMonkey article, there are columns that tell you which branch version each version is built from (for example, SeaMonkey v 1.1.5 comes from rv 1.8.1). I think that if we had something which listed Firefox, Netscape, SeaMonkey, Camino, Flock, K-Meleon, Galeon, Epiphany etc, all together, then this might help people to know which product has the latest additions to the layout engine, security, etc (considering that release dates do not always indicate this) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.232.19.118 (talk) 17:51, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] How is popularity measured?

According to the article gecko is the second most popular engine -- I assume popularity is measured by how many users a given rendering engine has. Given the complexities of measuring this kind of popularity and it's uncertainties, and the fact that the majority of users doesn't actively choose a rendering engine, but rather chooses a user interface, when an active choice is made, I propose that the notion is either removed, clarified or changed so that the number of software projects (where a choice regarding the rendering engine is made), is more important than the number of users. FrederikHertzum 17:33, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Why not simply change the wording from "second most popular" to "second most used"? The new wording completely clarifies the intended meaning. That fact is not disputed at all, and is very important because most web developers need to test with the most popular layout engines because there are too many browsers to test against. -- Schapel 17:47, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Update needed

The 1.9 section really needs to be updated. It only has ultra-preliminary speculation in it, we know more sure things about Gecko 2.0 than what the article lists for 1.9! --NetRolller 3D 21:24, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] logout image

Current image is including a user name from Wikipedia. Can someone take a screenshot without a user logging-in?--OsamaK 17:44, 16 March 2008 (UTC)