New default web browser on KDE Spin

[Mustafa Muhammad]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 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.

HTML5 reached its final spec 9 months ago.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/10/html5-specification-finalized-squabbling-over-who-writes-the-specs-continues/

>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.

Again, HTML5 is final since October 2014

> 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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