Konqueror Compiled For Mac OS X; KOffice Next

scishop writes "Benjamin Reed has just compiled Konqueror for Mac OS X after porting the KUniqueApplication class. A screenshot of the running program can be found here. According to Reed's blog, 'next up is KOffice.'"

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Re:OS X Maximizes browser choice?

[OmniVector]

lets see.
you get:

• gecko
• • mozilla
  • firebird
  • camino
• khtml
• • konqueror
  • omniweb
  • safari
• mac ie
• opera
• icab

that's getting to be quite an impressive list. 4/9 of those are mac only. i doubt you can consider mac ie a separate browser from windows ie, even though they are two totally different rendering engines.

icab is crap, and no one uses it anymore. mac ie still gets used quite a bit soley because it's the default browser shipped with 10.0, 10.1, and 10.2. it's also included in 10.3, and i know some people who are too stubborn to give safari a try. i still consider it crap however. omniweb is safari in drag. and konqueror, although nice it is finally ported, is more or less for proof of concept. opera for mac isn't even up to 7.0 yet if i remember right, with opera being all pissed at apple releasing safari. so that really leaves you with safari, and the mozilla browsers. the only 2 that are mac only in that lot are camino and safari.

i'm dying for a browser as powerful and simple as safari to hit linux. epiphany's not quite there.

From good to troll in 3 bullet points.

[Inoshiro]

"- it was designed from the ground up and is conceptually sound, unlike mozilla which was a hack job on top of netscape's browser"

Nope. They dropped the old code and started from scratch a long, looong time ago.

"- unlike other browsers (mozilla, IE), it was designed using 'mature' technology (HTML4, CSS, etc.) and does not have nearly as many compatibility woes as IE, nor as many add-on hacks, as the other browsers had, due to changing stnadards over the years (in other words: it's a newer, fresher code base)"

Nope. Konq doesn't pass basic CSS tests that I have written. Mozilla does.

"- unlike mozilla/firebird, I can use it for hours/days with many pages open (15+) without the entire affair slowing to a crawl and/or dying"

Nope in my case. I'm not sure your problem, but I have no problem with my 2-3 windows with about 7-15 tabs each, open for the entirety my computer is on. The average between reboots on my workstation is a month. I'll close Mozilla to update to a more recent nightly, but that's about it. My hardware isn't insane either --- XP 1700+ w/ 768mb RAM.