On Thu, 6 Apr 2017, Jan Kleks wrote: >2017-04-06 13:48 GMT+02:00 E. Liddell <ejlddll@...>: >> On Thu, 06 Apr 2017 07:46:40 deloptes <deloptes@...> wrote: >> > Jan Kleks wrote: >> > >> > > I think this is a very important issue. Maybe a bug-tracker ticket >> > > should be created for discussing possible solutions? >> > >> > I think we've already discussed it. My impression is that at the end it >> > comes to man power. With only few developers it's not possible to do >> > implement something better. >> > >> > I suggest you discuss the topic on the dev thread. Perhaps we can make a >> > roadmap or something and slowly improve some aspects. >> >> Improving KHTML isn't in the cards, I don't think. Previous discussions >> have focussed around porting the entire browser to a new rendering engine >> (generally KHTML's descendant Webkit) that already supports the missing >> CSS3 and HTML5 features. There's just never been enough manpower to >> do the work. >> >> The Javascript engine probably also needs to be updated. I don't know >> how susceptible it is to piecemeal upgrades, as opposed to dropping the >> entire thing and adopting something written for another browser. >> >Apart from Webkit there is also QtWebEngine used, for instance, by Otter >Browser ( >http://browsingthenet.blogspot.com/2016/03/k-meleon-vs-qupzilla-vs-otter-browser.html). >This engine might be worth considering as well. > >An alternative to replacing the rendering engine would be to remove >Konqueror's web capabilities altogether (what's the point of have a broken >browser?), and adopting another lightweight browser for the TDE (or just >removing Konqueror and leaving the matter of installing their favorite >browser to the users). > >For the time being, when launching Konqueror for the first time it could >show a message that web rendering is broken for now, and the TDE Team >suggest installing another browser. So that the users won't think that the >TDE is outdated or something because of this. I use konqueror foremost as a file manager _between_ systems (sftp://...) AND as an old browser to check my web pages to insure they play nice when visited by someone using an older browser. I don't doubt that others do, too. Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ | linux Pueblo, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | FreeBSD __ 38.238N 104.547W | jonz.net | DM78rf | OS/2 SK