The other goal for the Webkit conversion is actually to help stabilize the Windows version as well. Right now since MoI depends on mshtml.dll if there is some kind of installation problem with IE (like some kind of manglement in the registry) it can mess things up for MoI. The new Webkit based version of MoI will distribute Webkit along with the MoI installation so it is much more self contained and less affected by mild registry corruption.

Also one other problem with mshtml.dll is that it gets updated to new versions pretty frequently when new versions of IE get installed, and it is not too unusual for there to be slight differences in behavior between some different versions, which is another source of instability.

It's taken me a lot longer than I had originally thought to do the conversion, but it should be worthwhile for the Windows version as well when it is done, just to have better long term stability.

There are also other parts to the conversion as well, like scripting in MoI is now handled by the JavaScriptCore library that is a part of Webkit, rather than using the Microsoft JScript.dll .

- Michael