Check this one out:

[Tim Wunder]

In fact, (as I understand it) many of the Apple changes have made their 
way into the 3.1 branch of KDECVS and will be included in the released 
3.1. Still more are being applied solely to HEAD.

That Apple is creating a browser based on KHTML can only be a good thing 
for linux, regardless of one's opinion of KDE, or even Konqueror. How 
long will it be before someone creates a linux browser-only project 
based on KHTML in much the same vein as Galeon, or Phoenix does with Gecko?

On 1/16/2003 9:14 AM, someone claiming to be Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> Konq-fan or not, anything that drags developers out of their little "It's
> an IE world afterall" chorus is a good thing for us.  The browser is using
> the KHTML engine, which (having run both KDE2.2.1 and KDE3 quite a bit)
> has improved a good deal over the last year or so.  What that means is
> that KHTML will have a lot more pressure to be good and trim. 
> Standards-compliance is a key point for the Mac team and they've pushed
> back quite a bit to the KHTML team to fix non-compliant items.  Konqueror
> in 3.0.3 isn't perfect, but it does a lot of the IE-pages better than
> Mozilla or Netscape.  Still, there are things I need NS or Moz for.  I'm
> just happy that they've improved it since the 2.2.1 days (which is what
> I'm using on this machine).
> 
> 
> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:48:28 -0500
> "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Interesting.  No way do I want to return to Windows, er KDE but it would
>>be nice it a browser like that would be available for Linux.  I guess I
>>could check and see what merging Konq would drag in to run under xfce.