On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 18:55 -0500, Allen Winter wrote: > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 2:47:35 pm Linuxguy123 wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 19:33 +0100, Luk?? Tinkl wrote: > > > Dne Tuesday 27. of January 2009 19:26:13 Linuxguy123 napsal(a): > > > > On Tue, 2009-01-27 at 17:06 +0000, Jos? Matos wrote: > > > > > On Tuesday 27 January 2009 16:52:28 Linuxguy123 wrote: > > > > > > I knew that... I was hoping someone had an inside scoop or reason why > > > > > > its the way it is. > > > > > > > > > > Several of us have (probably) some ideas why that has happened, on the > > > > > other hand your preamble will turn us way from giving any kind of answer. > > > > > > > > > > For example what do you understand as a real browser? Do (e)links, lynx > > > > > or dillo (among others) qualify? If the they don't qualify why are there > > > > > users using them to browse the net? > > > > > > > > > > If you define a real browser as browser that deals with all the pages, > > > > > then I am sorry but there aren't any. No single browser deals with all > > > > > pages (imagine those IE-only pages, as an example) so there are no real > > > > > browsers. QED. > > > > > > > > When will Konqueror work as well as Firefox does as far as handling > > > > webpages without errors ? > > > > > > I think Jos? explained quite well your twisted perception of how the "real" > > > browser should look like. I for one know of many webpages that work correctly > > > in Konqueror but fail miserably in Firefox; guess why? Because these pages > > > were designed for IE only > > > > OK, well here is an example page that Konqueror does not handle > > properly: > > > > http://www.linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2009-01-27-015-35-IN-KE > > > > I assume that Linux Today wouldn't write web pages that are "IE only". > > > > The problem my konqueror has with this page is that it displays what > > looks like a title bar incorrectly in the middle of the page. "Events > > Blogs, Jobs, Partners...Search" > > > > And the "Complete Story" link doesn't work. > > > > So... I right click-> Open As... open it in Firefox and read the > > story. > > > > If you don't believe me, I'd be happy to send a screen shot. > > > I have been working with a khtml developer the past hour or so on this one. > > Turns out there is one extra "</li>" in the html on that page where there shouldn't be. > So the html is a bit messy. However, the developer says he can fix khtml > to be smarter about this. > > In summary, we have a good chance for this bug to be fixed in 4.2.1 Excellent. Great work. Maybe you could share the email of the khtml guy and we could tackle a few of these as a team ? I'd love to see Konqueror work as well as Firefox or Opera. Its my favorite browser. I bet it wouldn't take long to track down about a dozen of the worst issues and I bet that would handle 80% of the pages it doesn't display properly.
