On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:31, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > Okay, here's your new thread... > > That's interesting, I've yet to run into a site that konq handled better > than firefox. For the majority of sites I visit, konq works fine. > > Many of the problematic sites for me are financial institutions. They often > say they support IE and netscape. Generally, if it works with netscape, it > works with firefox. Sometimes in konq, buttons don't work, and stuff like > that. > > There are also some news sites that are problematic. www.globeandmail.com > consistently hangs konq. Some others (linuxtoday.com, slashdot.org) use > javascript to display ads, and the ads in konq come in on top of the > article text, often making the article unreadable. For sites like these, > where the javascript is non-essential to the use of the site, I just > disable javascript for those domains in konq. > > According to a discussion on the kde quality list, firefox takes the > approach of trying to reasonably handle everything it might run into on the > web, including all the standards violations introduced by M$ and Netscape. > Konq instead takes the approach of correctly implementing all the official > standards for html, javascript and so on. So most of these problems are not > konq bugs, they are standards violations that firefox tries to accomodate, > but konq does not.
Actually, Konqi does have a compatibility mode, it's just not as comprehensive as Firefox's, or rather that should be Khtml vs Gecko rendering engines and Kjs vs whatever Javascript engines. And it gets better each revision, especially with the input from Apple. I'm not sure what version of Konqi you are using, but I have 3.4.3 (not Mandriva standard) and have no problems at all with www.globeandmail.com (admittedly only 5 minutes poking around), and I can't say I've noticed any problems at slashdot with the ads. Working for a financial institution whose site does not work fully in Konqi, I'm quite bolshie in pushing for standards compliance in general, but my influence on our web-team is minimal, they seem to have to learn for themselves the painful way what we old mainframers learnt years back :-( John. --- Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com
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