[plug] Let the flamewar begin

[Trevor Phillips]

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:09, skribe wrote:
> We have a new poll on the web site:
>
> What is your favourite web browser?
>
> Remember to add a comment telling us why your preferred browser runs rings
> around all the others, preferably by pointing out all their flaws and
> inconsistencies. =)

Uh, I'll bite. ^_^

They all have their problems, that's for sure, and I haven't found one that 
"runs rings", but I spend most of my time using Konqueror (part of KDE 
2.2.1). NS4.x is prehistoric in its support of HTML & related techs, Opera is 
a step ahead, but only just, NS6/Mozilla is very cool, but still has a few 
issues (and isn't Anti-aliased on my system). And IE, funnily enough, doesn't 
run under Linux (and vmware is bloody slow).

Konqueror's Pros (not in order):
  - AA fonts!
  - Good Cookie-management system
  - Good CSS/DHTML support (and other rendering/layout)
  - Actually easier to get some CSS/DHTML stuff working than NS/IE, 
content-creation-wise

Konqueror's Cons:
  - Still crashes occasionally
  - Problems rendering form elements when dynamically resizing (scrolling 
around fixes it, so it's not a show-stopper)
  - Not NS/IE, so some problems with how other sites implement DHTML/JS (ie; 
low qty of specific support from content developers)

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