Because embedding KHTML means that you have a GUI application that runs on a special operation system.
But what we propose is that you can write a web application in the same way like your GUI application and it appears like a "normal" GUI. Web application means in these case that you have a application that has a browser as a frontend client. The idea itself is a little bit like XUL for mozilla. But there you are dependent to the mozilla browser. Our main goal is plattform independence. Because our user are using os x, linux and windows side by side and therefore we needed a os independent system. As we started Qt was not around as open source for windows. Now you could ask why we didn't choose something like LAMP. The answer is quite simple, we didn't want to fiddle around with html and some embedded stuff or even worse with cgi scripts. So the result is a kind of a abstraction layer that handles the normal web stuff but can be programmed like a gui. As a result the application programmer doesn't have to bother if it is a web application delivered through a webserver or if it is a gui application delivered through X11 or other pixel painting engines. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
