On 25 ?????? 2000 00:47, OS wrote: | | Despite all the praise lavished on it, konqueror has a long way to go yet! | yes, I agree with you. | JavaScript is decidedly hit and miss. yes. | Any pages with Flash 5 content just appear blank. | Flash 4 plugins don't load or run. | Real player is not there. It puts up the Real logo, but that's it. don't know if it's important. Flash and Real are really American (US)-specific products. You can't use Flash or Real player with slow connections. Strong CSS support is what is strongly required. | Fonts below about 9pt come out horribly squished. | Rendering speed is slow. This actually helped debug www.jamjar.com ! | Konqueror renders fonts with XFree/FreeType mechanism. It is not KDE-specific. Keith Packard develops now render technology, which is superiour to MS anti-aliased fonts. Let's wait until it's out, then compare Windows and X. | And I hardly used it so far ! | | I find it very hard to believe that anyone seriously thinks konqueror is | better than IE 5. It not even as good as Netscape 4.76 yet !!! | | Owen IMHO, Konqueror is *not* better then MS IE. But it is much better then Netscape 4.76 or Mozilla. here is some bread for thoughts: http://htmltests.newmail.ru It's hard to predict what will be IE6 exactly. But I guess it wil be some kind of 150MB+ monster (as Media Player, instant messanger and god knows what elkse will be integrated into it) IE 5.0 is ok, but IE 6.0 will be *NOT* ok. And it's better to recognize that Netscape lost this battle. There is a need for a fresh blood. Here is Konqueror. It's fresh and smart. I agree with you that more competition is needed. I personally will appreciate if Opera goes Open Source. But it's unlikely that this will happen. Let's recognize: Konqueror is the only Free, Open-Source browser with acceptable license; it's not controlled by any company. Mozilla with Netscape behind it can't compete, becuase there is still too much Netscape behind. And do you know where the best programmers in the world are working? I want to tell only one thing here: not in Netscape or America Online. Microsoft bought the best money can buy. Open Source has the best what money can't buy. Netscape has nothing behind. -- Vadim Plessky http://kde2.newmail.ru (English) http://kde2.newmail.ru/index_rus.html (Russian) Do you have Arial font installed? Just test it! http://kde2.newmail.ru/font_test_arial.html
