Re: [QSOS-general] Browsers in webcompatibility.qin

[Raphael Semeteys]

On Monday 05 March 2007 11:26, Nicolas Vérité wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In webcompatibility.qin "Web compatibility" > "Supported browsers", we got:
> "Mozilla and Firefox"
> "Konqueror"
> "MSIE"
> "Safari"
> "Legacy browsers"
>
> Strictly speaking, Mozilla is an organization (foundation and corporation),
> that is subject to evolve. The Mozilla Suite doesn't exist under that
> name anymore,
> it is Seamonkey, which also subject to evolve. Firefox has a twin
> brother: "Iceweasel"
> (no troll inside). Firefox has cousins: Epyphany, Flock, etc.
> Mozilla-platform-based browsers
> are legions: Netscape 6/7/8/9, K-Meleon, etc. So the first item should be
> IMHO: "Mozilla platform-based browsers (Firefox)" or something like that.
> What would you prefer?
A do agree 'Mozilla-based browsers" sounds good to me.
>
> Konqueror and Safari use the same ancestry codebase, which is quite
> forked/fragmented,
> but it subject to evolve in the right direction through WebKit.
> Besides, Adium and Nokia use it.
> IMHO, both items should be regrouped in an "WebKit-based browsers
> (Safari, Konqueror)".
> What would your naming be?
But is th replacement of KHTML by WebCore in Konqueror a reality today ?
>
> Opera is leading the mobile market and exists also on the desktop,
> IMHO it is a mistake to forget it.
Agree.
>
> My new tree would be:
> "Mozilla platform-based browsers (Firefox)"
> "WebKit-based browsers (Safari, Konqueror)"
> "MSIE"
> "Opera"
> "Legacy browsers"
>
> Nÿco

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