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What does "KHTML, like Gecko" mean in a user-agent string?

I understand that KHTML is the HTML Layout Engine used, but what significance does the "like Gecko" part have? Why is it there? Is there a historical reason similar to the "Mozilla" part of the User Agent String?
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Tables in PDF with horizontal page breaks

Does someone know a (preferably open-source) PDF layout engine for Java, capable of rendering tables with horizontal page breaks? "Horizontal page breaking" is at least how the feature is named in BIRT, but to clarify: If a table has too many…
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HTML 5 Browser Compatibility Chart - HTML 5 in Old Browsers?

I have just started considering using the HTML 5 api for a Rails/JQuery project, so I can use that great data- attribute to store values. I am worried though about browser compatibility issues. I have two questions (basic questions): In order to…
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convert html to image in byte array java

How can i easily convert html to image and then to byte array without create it thanks
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difference between layout engine and javascript engine

After much reading, it seems that when people say, browser engine, they refer to the layout engine such as gecko or webkit. I also know that the layout engine is basically responsible for "painting" the screen and the javascript engine is used for…
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Where can I find a guide to the inner workings of Internet Explorer's Trident engine?

Just as the title says. As i went through different explanations for choices made about the stylesheets of HTML pages, the masters sometimes seem to know how this layout engine seems to work in IE6, IE7 or IE8. I haven't found a good resource about…
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Write Desktop Application with HTML Frontend

I want to make a certain desktop application (why not a web service? efficiency & privacy). I'd like the frontend to be html. (why? simplicity & portability). Is it possible (and tractable) to render the window using (say) gecko or webkit? My…
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Is there any proteus (runtime layout engine) version of react-native?

proteus is basically a runtime layout engine for Android developed by Indian e-commerce Flipkart. Basically, I want to be able to control my home screen & Support Screen of the app from a backend server, so that I don't have to push every for every…
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How was iOS UI AutoLayout Engine implemented?

I need to implement something like iOS AutoLayout engine in my project. The problem is not the same, but I hope that the implementation idea will be helpful for me. I'll be grateful for any help.
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How to detect a browser's layout engine in JavaScript?

I want to create different behaviors according to the layout engine of the client's browser. How to detect if it's WebKit (Chrome, Safari, Yandex, Midori), Gecko (Firefox, K-Meleon, Netscape), Trident (IE), or others?
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Resources to create your own html 5 / css3 layout engine in C#

Are there any resources out there for how to create your own layout engine (like webkit) in C#, that supports html 5 and css 3, preferably through MSHTML, or anything else. Also, if the above is impossible, how can I add on to the webbrowsercontrol…
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Any Android libraries which implement Facebook's Yoga layout engine?

I'm interested in any Android implementations of Facebook's Yoga layout engine which allows me to add any View to it and have it defined by the Yoga's layout. Something similar to the YogaLayout (which unfortunately was removed by Facebook, it's…
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Custom text editor layout engine in javascript

I'm building a custom input field in javascript. (i.e. not using content editable, input, textarea or iframes). I need it to support the basic options in a textarea field e.g.: Mouse click for cursor position Selection Copy/paste ... At this…
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simple browser application starting development

I want to create a simple browser but want to use visual studio for making development process easy as I am more comfortable with it. I tried to find a stable webkit browser layout engine library for NET, but the other projects are either not…
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