When is Konqueror going to become a real browser ? Why hasn't it matured ?

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 27 January 2009 23:15:51 Allen Zhu wrote:
> On 1/27/09, Ben Boeckel <MathStuf at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > > OK, well here is an example page that Konqueror does not handle
> > > properly:
> > >
> > > http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-27-015-35-IN-
> >
> > KE
> >
> > > I assume that Linux Today wouldn't write web pages that are "IE only".
> > >
> > > The problem my konqueror has with this page is that it displays what
> > > looks like a title bar incorrectly in the middle of the page. "Events
> > > Blogs, Jobs, Partners...Search"
> > >
> > > And the "Complete Story" link doesn't work.
> > >
> > > So... I right click-> Open As... open it in Firefox and read the
> > > story.
> > >
> > > If you don't believe me, I'd be happy to send a screen shot.
> > >
> > > $ rpm -q kdebase
> > > kdebase-4.1.4-2.fc10.i386
> > > $ rpm -q kdelibs
> > > kdelibs-4.1.4-2.fc10.i386
> >
> > It works here. I don't see anything that different from Firefox's
> > rendering other than adblock filter lists being different.
> >
> > % rpm -q kdelibs kdebase
> > kdelibs-4.2.0-1.fc10.x86_64
> > kdebase-4.2.0-1.fc10.x86_64
>
> Hmm...
>
> Is it true that then that when KDE is updated to 4.2 then it will work
> better?
>
In terms of what?

What 4.2 *may* do is release some development time to work on planned changes 
to the backend, but the advantages of that will not be seen for some time yet, 
IMO.  I stress that this is only my opinion.

Anne
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