Re: [linuxiran] Gecko in Konqueror?

[Hooman Baradaran]

> So are you now able to use Gecko as Konqueror's engine?
Well not yet, he hasn't put it on the ftp yet. For whatever reason the RPMs 
where created in the past week r so but I'll wait, it's not that urgent. :)

> Well, if only web developers start to care about W3C standards, and
> start underestanding that they shouldn't verify their pages for browser
> X, and browser Y, and instead should verify their html and CSS code
> against W3C validator, then things would have been alright.
> Unfortunately most web developers (my instructor in university
> included) do not underestand why standards matter, and why somone
> shouldn't develop browser dependent web pages.

Well I was a web developer when I was in high school and didn't have a clue 
what W3C is. Of course not all web developers are high school students but 
most of them didn't study for it. I made my web sites based on IE because 
some effects looked better there (for example I could change cell background 
picture on mouse over and those scripts didn't work on anything else, blah 
blah). I was working on farhangsara.com with a computer engineer and he was 
worst than me.

> If you realy need IE that bad, you can run IE 5.5 using Wine. I once
> tried it just for fun, and it worked perfectly well and stable (more
> stable that IE on Windows). IE 6.0 still doesn't work using Wine, but
> that really doesn't matter as for compatibility with legacy web pages,
> IE 5.5 should be more than enough.
I'll try. You never know what works with wine. I could get Acrobat 5 to work 
with wine nice and easy but Office XP and some other programs didn't.
And NO I don't it that bad!

> Microsoft's tactics are now known to everyone. Embrace a standard, then
> partialy implement it, then infect it with windows-only things, then go
> out and use terms such as *industry standard* in your marketing
> campaigns.
>
> They did it with their (funny) implementation of POSIX in NT 4.0
>
> They hijacked Java, added windows-specific things to it, then released
> it as being Java compiant.
>
> They wanted to hijack the internet by making sure that all web pages
> only show in their non-standard proprietary browser.
>
>
> They did it with their CSS implementation in IE
>
> With Unicode implementation in Windows
>
> with XML implementation in Office 2003 (to be released)
>
> .....
>
> OK, the list is too long.

Yes, as one of my profs always says Microsoft ROCKS ... only in business not 
anything software related.

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Hooman Baradaran
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