Why Firefox is not a good choice of browser for a KDE/Plasma-based product

[Kevin Kofler]

Felix Miata wrote:
> FWIW as a counter-point, only two non-antique browser engines support
> absolutely sized objects: KHTML & Gecko. IE, Blink & WebKit for screen
> media have an absolute 3:4 ratio between pt and px, meaning e.g. that a
> CSS declaration of 12pt will always be rendered on a display screen @16px,
> regardless of physical display density. This conforms to CSS3
> specification, which is a change from prior CSS versions. IOW, for a web
> page to display what should be a 10cm wide object 10cm wide (except by
> accident), an antique, a Gecko, or a KHTML browser engine is required. You
> can see this for yourself with e.g.
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/dpi-screen-window.html or
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/dpi-screen-sample.html or
> http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-ptdemo.html if your DE is configured
> to accurately match your physical display density.

That's an argument for Konqueror, it has KHTML available by design. :-p

But really, if the CSS3 spec is broken, there is not much we can or should 
do about that. :-(

        Kevin Kofler