New default web browser on KDE Spin

[Felix Miata]

Mustafa Muhammad composed on 2015-07-25 08:40 (UTC+0300):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> 1-Its UI is mature (predictable, comfortable for those who need to get work done)

>> 2-It incorporates a choice of two rendering engines, one matching the
>> functionality of Chromium (WebKit),

> It does NOT match the functionality of Chrome

> http://html5test.com/
> Konqueror with WebKit 355 out of 555
> Chrome                         526 out of 555
> Firefox                           467 out of 555

> Chrome uses Blink, a fork of WebKit, even when Chrome used WebKit, it
> was faster and offered better HTML5 support (maybe kwebkitpart used an
> older version of WebKit).

So Konq matches Safari rather than Chrom*. Big deal. HTML5 is a moving
target, in constant development, with as yet no final spec. The browser
engine developers are free to spend time implementing proposals and
expectations as they see fit to justify spending time on a spec that may
again change or might be more easily implemented by waiting and working it in
alongside some expected upcoming change.

What really matters is not how many out of 555 or whatever the combination of
locked-in and still mutable is met, but how well any engine syncs up with
results from its competition on real web pages written and styled by real web
stylists, so that special adaptations or workarounds directed to specific
engines are not required to get results matching cross-browser. It also
matters whether a browser can do what the user wants. Far behind as KHTML is
behind the others, it can do things others cannot, and only Konq offers it.
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