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Tthe better question is, why should Konqueror try and compete? Don't we have enough browsers to hunt bugs for?! I have a better idea - save yourself time and u

by mitjak 17y ago

Tthe better question is, why should Konqueror try and compete? Don't we have enough browsers to hunt bugs for?! I have a better idea - save yourself time and us a headache and ship Linux with Firefox regardless of the window manager. Oh and Microsoft, if you're listening, that applies to you as well. Big time.

cookiecaper 17y ago
Konqueror is an important component in the web ecosystem. WebKit is a fork of its KHTML rendering engine and KJS JavaScript machine, and Konqueror is a cool and good thing. The changes between WebKit and KHTML are still sometimes laterally applicable. Homogeny is bad -- if there are people interested in developing alternatives to Gecko, more power to them; competition is what drives and refines products toward perfection.
- mitjak 17y ago
  Homogeny is bad but what would be good is complete standardization. Then users would be free to pick a browser they like and we wouldn't have to worry too much about cross-browser compatibility. It's becoming less of an issue and most complaints are still targeted at IE primarily, but you know what I mean.
psadauskas 17y ago
If no browsers tried to compete, we'd all still be using IE6.
dexen 17y ago
Being a browser integrated with desktop and other programs, and able to pull more tasks than just web browsing gives Konqueror an advantage. WebKit is a fork of KHTML, the teams still exchange changesets; take it as sign of maturity of Konqueror. Aside of being a browser, Konqueror is a versatile tool for working with both local and remote files in variety of ways. It uses KParts technology to seamlessly integrate whole engines from several other KDE application, adapting to various tasks without it becoming bloated. The KParts approach seems to me to be more versatile than FX's plugins. After several years working with Konqueror 3.x and 4.x series, I find it more comfortable than Firefox for daily use. Also its default font suite fits me much better than Firefox's. In my experience, if you are using KDE, it starts up much faster than Firefox. Last but not least, a model with just two major competitors: IE and FX would lead to stagnation and poor standard conformance, and in a longer run, to market domination by one of them. Which happen once with IE and NN, didn't do much good for the net. We want steady pressure from Opera, Konqueror and Safari at least to keep up the progress.

by mitjak 17y ago

cookiecaper 17y ago

Konqueror is an important component in the web ecosystem. WebKit is a fork of its KHTML rendering engine and KJS JavaScript machine, and Konqueror is a cool and good thing. The changes between WebKit and KHTML are still sometimes laterally applicable. Homogeny is bad -- if there are people interested in developing alternatives to Gecko, more power to them; competition is what drives and refines products toward perfection.

mitjak 17y ago
Homogeny is bad but what would be good is complete standardization. Then users would be free to pick a browser they like and we wouldn't have to worry too much about cross-browser compatibility. It's becoming less of an issue and most complaints are still targeted at IE primarily, but you know what I mean.

psadauskas 17y ago

If no browsers tried to compete, we'd all still be using IE6.

dexen 17y ago

Being a browser integrated with desktop and other programs, and able to pull more tasks than just web browsing gives Konqueror an advantage. WebKit is a fork of KHTML, the teams still exchange changesets; take it as sign of maturity of Konqueror. Aside of being a browser, Konqueror is a versatile tool for working with both local and remote files in variety of ways. It uses KParts technology to seamlessly integrate whole engines from several other KDE application, adapting to various tasks without it becoming bloated. The KParts approach seems to me to be more versatile than FX's plugins. After several years working with Konqueror 3.x and 4.x series, I find it more comfortable than Firefox for daily use. Also its default font suite fits me much better than Firefox's. In my experience, if you are using KDE, it starts up much faster than Firefox. Last but not least, a model with just two major competitors: IE and FX would lead to stagnation and poor standard conformance, and in a longer run, to market domination by one of them. Which happen once with IE and NN, didn't do much good for the net. We want steady pressure from Opera, Konqueror and Safari at least to keep up the progress.