On Tuesday 27 of January 2009 19:33:29 Lukáš Tinkl wrote:
Dne Tuesday 27. of January 2009 19:26:13 Linuxguy123 napsal(a):
> On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 17:06 +0000, José Matos wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 16:52:28 Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > > I knew that... I was hoping someone had an inside scoop or reason why
> > > its the way it is.
> >
> > Several of us have (probably) some ideas why that has happened, on the
> > other hand your preamble will turn us way from giving any kind of
> > answer.
> >
> > For example what do you understand as a real browser? Do (e)links, lynx
> > or dillo (among others) qualify? If the they don't qualify why are
> > there users using them to browse the net?
> >
> > If you define a real browser as browser that deals with all the pages,
> > then I am sorry but there aren't any. No single browser deals with all
> > pages (imagine those IE-only pages, as an example) so there are no real
> > browsers. QED.
>
> When will Konqueror work as well as Firefox does as far as handling
> webpages without errors ?
I think José explained quite well your twisted perception of how the "real"
browser should look like. I for one know of many webpages that work
correctly in Konqueror but fail miserably in Firefox; guess why? Because
these pages were designed for IE only
Once I helped one guy with testing web pages on Linux - it worked in Firefox,
IE6 in wine but Konqueror failed - totally messed page. So I read w3c specs -
and guess what? Konqueror was only one browser rendering it correctly (by w3c
specs :).
Back to topic: there are possibilities to replace Konqueror - or at least
KHTML - with WebKit. Arora is nice Qt 4 lightweight browser but looks now that
development stalled for a while. One reason is maybe waiting for Qt 4.5 - it
adds support of embedding Netscape plugins to QtWebKit. Another missing
feature is password management.
Try 'yum install arora'.
R.
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