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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by NabLa on Monday 10/Mar/2008, @04:24

That may be true or perhaps not, truth is that I haven't found many sites as of now that won't work on KHTML (both on last KDE3 and KDE4), but wouldn't be the answer to make KHTML better? Never done anything with webkit, however I'm under the impression that KDE devs think webkit is a bit clunky and complicated to work with. I know that reinventing the wheel is always silly, however KHTML is clean and performant, and has been an integral part of KDE for a very long while. Not to mention that webkit was based on it.

Mind you, the only reason I use Firefox is because of the extensions. If Konq supported them it would be my browser of choice.

Not being funny, but I'm beginning to agree with others about that functionality, stability and performance is being neglected in favour of looks, seemingly ignoring the fact that KDE4 *is* quite buggy at the moment. KHTML is an example of this IMO. File management on desktop, another one. I do use KDE4 on a daily basis though. I miss, though, the rock-solidness and snapiness of KDE3.5. But that's what you get when running very new software so I don't complain and file bug reports instead.

I do remember that KDE3.0 was, well, quite crap, and 3.1 was really good, while 3.2 was amazing, so I would expect the same for KDE4.1.

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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by Terracotta on Monday 10/Mar/2008, @04:39

KHTML renders a lot of sites good and it's fast, but when it comes to sites for banking, or other interactive stuff, it leaves a lot to be desired, most possibly because the sites are bad engineered. Safari OTOH has found more acceptance with webdevs and therefore renders the sites I (perhaps other people too) really need, where KHTML does not. Rendering glitches are not really a big issue, as long as the content is shown, but when you really need something interactive to work and it doesn't, it IS a showstopper, therefor three engines that are widely used would most possibly help other html-engines, (opera has the same problem as KHTML, in fact KHTML has less problems than opera, except from maybe the gmail thing), plus the fact that even in the gtk camp, devs are looking more and more in the direction of webkit instead of gecko which makes webkit a more attractive choice.

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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by Diederik van der Boor on Tuesday 11/Mar/2008, @02:30

> That may be true or perhaps not, truth is that I haven't found many sites as of now that won't work on KHTML (both on last KDE3 and KDE4),

I'm starting to find more and more sites where KHTML doesn't cut it for me sadly. That's mostly sites doing ajaxy things. I'd love to report those, can't find time to make a simple testcase and therefore ignored it.

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Re: webkit in konqueror!
by NabLa on Wednesday 12/Mar/2008, @02:44

I can report one or two for you if you post here the URLs

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