From kfm-devel  Wed Dec 18 10:06:26 2002
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 10:06:26 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: gecko embedding
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=104020608417150

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On Wednesday 18 December 2002 07:53, Uno Engborg wrote:
> Perhaps it would be a good idea to make gecko the default
> engine for web browsing. Not meant as to be disrespectful to the developers
> of the KDE engine, but it seams that Gecko is far ahead now.

This is not true - except for the XSLT stuff, that is.

> And if we don't have any good reasons, I think it is unnecessary to 
> reinvent the wheel.

Use Mozilla, then. There are many good reasons we're "reinventing the wheel"
here, one of them being that Konq provides a much more IE-compatible
(in terms of DHTML) browser. One that implements document.all, as well as many
other formerly IE-only things.

On some heavy DHTML websites, faking a useragent of "Internet Explorer"
fixes them, since they only know about IE and Moz (and Konqueror implements
the IE stuff).
On websites that only know about IE, you have no chances at all with Mozilla.

> The KDE engine could still be used in more lightweight and predictable 
> situations like displaying help pages.

This is not KDE 1 anymore.

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