KDE Gets Gecko/Mozilla Support

Sivar writes "Ars Technica reports that not only has the Gecko engine been ported to Konqueror, but the developers were able to finish the port in only four days during the week-long Akademy conference. With this port, Konqueror users now have a choice between two mature, powerful rendering engines."

Port the IE rendering engine

[ari_j]

I'm waiting for IE's rendering engine to be ported, possibly with some help from Wine.

W00t

[Anonymous Coward]

First post!

So now can they integrate IE's engine into Konq? I want my XXX toolbars and dialers already!

Another possible port?

[Anonymous Coward]

Now if only those KDE devs would port the Safari rendering engine us Linux users would be happy.

Almost first post!

[tajmorton]

Damn, I almost got the first post but I was having trouble getting Gecko to work in Konqueror!

Re:That was done a long time ago.

[Ford Prefect]

Actually it ran in X before it ever did in Windows. IE is the browser formerly known as NCSA Mosaic.

Yeah, but who would seriously want to run Mosaic nowadays? It's got crap support for modern standards, piss-poor rendering, no working PNG support, broken CSS, and with no chance of it being updated it's, erm... Well...

... Kind of like its descendant, Internet Explorer. ;-)

Re:Port the IE rendering engine

[xutopia]

help from Wine? I think you mean with some help from Crack?

Porting the whine..

[Anonymous Coward]

"Just run IE with Wine I guess ... ?"

Waaah! But I don't wanna run IE with Wine.

Are you stoned and browsing slashdot?

[bayerwerke]

Oh come on, that never happens.

Konqueror + slashdot != true

[Anonymous Coward]

Great, now slashdot will look weird in Konqueror as well!!

Re:Konqueror's UI

[cortana]

It's KDE! They'll just add a checkbox to the Prefs dialog.

Re:Porting the whine..

[runderwo]

Would you like some cheese with that... oh, nevermind.

Can see the connection.

[bayerwerke]

While your argument may have merit, I fail to see the connection between the 'Windows Driver Foundation' and getting stoned before browsing Slashdot.

Beware the IE rendering engine

[argent]

Be bloody careful if you really do this: make sure the HTML control is sandboxed every bloody way imaginable.

Personally, I'd rather port the viruses directly. It's more honest.

Re:Port the IE rendering engine

[FuzzyBad-Mofo]

Really? I never read EULAs, but have my dog click the 'agree' button to limit liability. Works for me.

Oh, the irony

[TardisX]

The linked article renders so badly in konqueror (KDE 3.2.2, FreeBSD) it wasn't even readable.

I guess that's telling me something.

Re:Oh, the irony

[Anonymous Coward]

You mean Ars Technica web site bad rendering? That it's also solved in KDE 3.3

And when you tick the checkbox...

[leonbrooks]

...they'll add a dropdown list of commonly preferred close-the-tab keys and an option to either close the browser with the last tab or leave it open with zero tabs showing.

The whole lot will be accessible from the command line with the right bizarre 90-character invokation.

GNOME will then add similar options, but you'll need to feed their equivalent a 40kB XML file to operate it from the command line.

I can also imagine an MSIE compatibility engine for KDE with settings for what kinds of viruses you want to support. (-: