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Konqueror Passes the Acid2 Test Too
An anonymous reader writes "A month after Safari , and after a lot of controversy, Allan Sandfeld Jensen announced today that Konqueror passes the Acid2 test too. Half of the patches could be merged from Apple's Webcore, the rest needed to be rewritten from scratch."
Yeah, and they should be sending out roses and chocolates while they're at it.
They're complying with the terms of the licence and they're putting as much or more development into webcore than the khtml guys can manage to backport into khtml. The KDE team should be happy they've got someone giving them publicity and putting development into their project whether they can backport it or not. In cases where the code is OS X specific, they can read it and use the logic.
The Safari team should focus on webcore, which is what Apple's shareholders want them to do. They shouldn't be working part-time on backporting to another, non-Apple project.
Then maybe the Konq team should just adopt WebCore as their rendering engine, if it's not too much trouble to convert between Cocoa and Konq APIs. Even if so, KHTML has lost nothing from the existence of WebCore, save the fact that the latter might steal users away from the former by virtue of its superiority.
I knew this straw man argument was coming from the second I posted.
Some things need to be explained, some things don't. Of course that is a matter of judgement. I never said "EXPLAIN EVERY ACRONYM OR NAME". Much fewer people are going to need C or RSA explained than "Acid2", some test that has been mentioned on slashdot maybe twice. This is obvious.
The point of slashdot is to be readable. I found this article to be unreadable and incomprehensible. If you think otherwise, fine. If you just want to make straw man arguments all day, go away.