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Konqueror Passes the Acid2 Test Too

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the anything-you-can-do dept.

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."

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  1. Editors! Context! by kiltedtaco · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    What the hell is Acid2? What does it have to do with Safari/Konqueror? What patches? Apple's Webcore? What's that?

    This is where editors are supposed to come in. There's no point in posting a story to the front page that only the 10 people who use konqueror are going to understand.

    1. Re:Editors! Context! by kiltedtaco · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      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.

  2. KDE by eneville · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    KDE is aweful to use though. I hate it so much. Gnome is far better, but I doubt this version of KDE will be in debian's stable for some time yet, and by that time Debian will have pointed out many bugs.

    Whats the big deal? just wait for the debian guys to approve something, its more worthy a test than acid.

    --
    Why UNIX?
  3. Re:Any more news on GPL violating? by MochaMan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

  4. Re:Only a month behind by fuck+nwbvt · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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.

  5. Re:Any more news on GPL violating? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No to all of the above. In my opinion, Apple has not legally violated the GPL, nor have they done so in spirit.

    Another Apple fanboy who will always blindly support Apple to justify being ripped off when buying a computer which can do nothing that a generic PC at half the price can't do.

    Did they violate the GPL legally? No. Did they do in spirit? Fuck yes, they released the code back in great big unmanagable patches so that the KHTML developers would have a difficult time backporting the changes to Konqueror. They actively refused to let the KHTML developers see the CVS repository even under an NDA. Purposefully making backporting to the original code difficult in this way is certainly violating the spirit of the GPL.

    Apparently some of those patches reached the size of over a megabyte. Try reading a megabyte of code sometime.