Written by Primož Papič the 21 Feb 09 at 20:45.

Konqueror can be tweaked through painstaking process so that it renders sites correctly.
But a normal user dosen't want or know how to do it.
So the Konqueror that would come with Kubuntu would have all this tweaks and work-around "installed".

So that a normal user can use it from a get-go.

Konqueror can be tweaked through painstaking process so that it renders sites correctly. But a normal user dosen't want or know how to do it. So the Konqueror that would come with Kubuntu would have all this tweaks and work-around "installed". So that a normal user can use it from a get-go.

Written by Primož Papič the 21 Feb 09 at 20:48.

WebKit KPart for Konqueror is under development, but it's still has rendering problems just like KHTML Konqueror.
So right now it's not that better than a normal Konqueror.
But maybe in future things would get better.

I read on KDE forums that Kubuntu devs are thinking to implement it in Jaunty if it gets stable enough.

WebKit KPart for Konqueror is under development, but it's still has rendering problems just like KHTML Konqueror. So right now it's not that better than a normal Konqueror. But maybe in future things would get better. I read on KDE forums that Kubuntu devs are thinking to implement it in Jaunty if it gets stable enough.

Written by Primož Papič the 21 Feb 09 at 20:57.

To quote their site:
"Arora is a simple cross platform web browser. Currently Arora is a very basic browser whose feature list includes things like "History" and "Bookmarks". When using Qt 4.4 Arora does not have support for netscape plugins, but if you use qt-snapshot then it will work. But it is small, less than 10,000 lines of code, very fast, lean, mean and loads of fun to hack on. Arora and QtWebKit is developed to be cross-platform using the Qt library. It was originally created as a demo for Qt to help test the QtWebKit component and find API issues and bugs before the release. An older version can still be found in Qt's source code in the demo/browser directory. Arora works on Linux, OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, and embedded Linux using Qt Embedded."

Screenshot of captcha of Brainstorm in Arora:


As you can see it renders it perfectly.
But the down side of Arora is that it's a very basic browser nowhere near to Firefox or konqueror.

To quote their <a href="http://code.google.com/p/arora/" target="_blank">site</a>: "Arora is a simple cross platform web browser. Currently Arora is a very basic browser whose feature list includes things like "History" and "Bookmarks". When using Qt 4.4 Arora does not have support for netscape plugins, but if you use qt-snapshot then it will work. But it is small, less than 10,000 lines of code, very fast, lean, mean and loads of fun to hack on. Arora and QtWebKit is developed to be cross-platform using the Qt library. It was originally created as a demo for Qt to help test the QtWebKit component and find API issues and bugs before the release. An older version can still be found in Qt's source code in the demo/browser directory. Arora works on Linux, OS X, Windows, FreeBSD, and embedded Linux using Qt Embedded." Screenshot of captcha of Brainstorm in Arora: <a href="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4854/arora.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/4854/arora.th.jpg" border="0"/></a> As you can see it renders it perfectly. But the down side of Arora is that it's a very basic browser nowhere near to Firefox or konqueror.

Written by Primož Papič the 21 Feb 09 at 21:23.

A good thing with Firefox Qt is that everybody knows Firefox, so nobody won't be asking themselves where is the browser.
But Firefox is deeply in development and at least I don't know how far did it came.
I do have it installed, but for me it seems just like a normal Firefox, so I can't say.
It suffers from all the known "bugs" under KDE.

A good thing with Firefox Qt is that everybody knows Firefox, so nobody won't be asking themselves where is the browser. But Firefox is deeply in development and at least I don't know how far did it came. I do have it installed, but for me it seems just like a normal Firefox, so I can't say. It suffers from all the known "bugs" under KDE. <a href="http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4400/ffqt.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/4400/ffqt.th.jpg" border="0"/></a>

Written by Dinth the 22 Feb 09 at 09:53.

So it will be properly integrated with rest of desktop

/Edited title so it's not confusing (Dinth you can change it back)

So it will be properly integrated with rest of desktop /Edited title so it's not confusing (Dinth you can change it back)

Written by Primož Papič the 22 Feb 09 at 11:58.

Opera is also written in Qt and it works nicely with most of sites. But it's closed source, so I guess it's not really an option.

Opera is also written in Qt and it works nicely with most of sites. But it's closed source, so I guess it's not really an option.

Written by t4ggs the 22 Feb 09 at 14:55.

Here are two examples
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7574
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7962

Here are two examples https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7574 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7962

Written by Primož Papič the 23 Feb 09 at 20:00.

Those that have KDE-neon installed can check by themselves.
IN KDE-neon Konqueror is "re-named" in Konqbrowser and so far I have yet to find a bad thing about it.
Here is a screenshot of Ubuntu Brainstorm captcha that was "mis-rendered" in old Konqueror.

Also the GMail seems to work well. But this is just a quick overview. I have to use it more to see if it works good...

Those that have KDE-neon installed can check by themselves. IN KDE-neon Konqueror is "re-named" in Konqbrowser and so far I have yet to find a bad thing about it. Here is a screenshot of Ubuntu Brainstorm captcha that was "mis-rendered" in old Konqueror. <a href="http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3522/konq43.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/3522/konq43.th.png" border="0"/></a> Also the GMail seems to work well. But this is just a quick overview. I have to use it more to see if it works good...

Written by torkiano the 9 Mar 09 at 16:21.

rekonq is a KDE browser based on QtWebkit. Its code is based on Nokia QtDemoBrowser, just like Arora. Anyway its implementation is going to embrace KDE technologies to have a full-featured KDE web browser.

http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/rekonq+Web+Browser?content=94258

rekonq is a KDE browser based on QtWebkit. Its code is based on Nokia QtDemoBrowser, just like Arora. Anyway its implementation is going to embrace KDE technologies to have a full-featured KDE web browser. http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/rekonq+Web+Browser?content=94258