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Browser Wars Mark II

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-this-episode-V-or-II dept.

Nigel McFarlane writes "I have no life (humour) other than to write articles about Web technology and open technologies, and the way they mediate, enable and transform our public places and our participation opportunities. Mostly I write about Mozilla and Linux, but my latest effort is an attempted wake-up call over Web standards and the future of the Web." Self-deprecation aside, it's a decent article that summarizes the stakes well.

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  1. Konqueror is KHTML not gecko by Kyro · · Score: 5, Informative

    Quote from article: "Beyond the Foundation are many other Mozilla-enabled browsers such as Konqueror and K-Meleon"

    I was under the impression that Konqueror used KHTML and not gecko...

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  2. Konqueror/Mozilla by StormReaver · · Score: 4, Informative

    Konqueror is Mozilla-enabled only in the sense that Konqueror implements the Netscape plugin architecture, as does Mozilla. Konqueror does not use the Mozilla rendering engine (Gecko), but rather uses its own engine (khtml).

  3. Single page version by Braudo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Smoke, Mirrors and Silence: The Browser Wars Reignite

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  4. Dood, it's called FIREFOX by Mr.+McD · · Score: 5, Informative

    Uh, I can embed Mozilla in the same number of Windows Apps as I can with IE. Furtermore, I can embed Mozilla inside of a Linux or Mac OS X program. This provides a great many USEFUL features that IE can only dream of. Oh wiat, thats right, they canceled IE on Mac OS X, so they don't care! Add to that that FIREFOX provides a consistent feature set across multiple operatating systems. I guess I really can't see your point.

  5. Re:I'm sure this is an excellent article... by typhoonius · · Score: 3, Informative

    What (apparently crappy) browser are you using?

    They're called cascading style sheets because they cascade; any modern browser lets the user use a custom style sheet in the absence of or to override author styles (and both IE and Mozilla let the user set the default background and foreground color for pages). My custom style sheet in Mozilla disables blink and marquee tags, for instance (and it's the underpinning of the FlashBlock extension).

    If this site's designers ran the style sheet through the W3C's free CSS validator service, it would have warned them to always specify both a background and a foreground color together for this exact reason.