Many thanks to mikesum for sending in word of a new KHTML-based web browser for BeOS. Dubbed Nirvana, the project appears to be largely in the planning stages at the moment. Despite the simplicity of KHTML (relative to something like Gecko), it sounds as if they have quite a lot of work to do:

In order to use WebCore (KHTML adopted by Apple and abstracted from Qt drawing libraries) engine under BeOS we need to implement KBE abstraction layer (like KWQ [quack] layer done in Apple) over Interface Kit classes (BView etc). KWQ uses obects derived from NSObject for commucation with host OS components. In BeOS we need to start implementation of similar layer named KBE [ka:be].

Anyone who reads this site regularly will probably expect me to make one of two bad jokes right about now: a “get KWQing” pun, or a joke about the old Mac error quack. I can’t really think of anything right now, however, so I’ll just take well-established literary cop-out of leaving it to the reader’s imagination.

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