On Tuesday 06 March 2012 01:05:33 pm Calvin Morrison wrote:
On 6 March 2012 13:03, Kristopher Gamrat chaotickjg@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Calvin Morrison mutantturkey@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 March 2012 12:07, Kristopher Gamrat chaotickjg@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Calvin Morrison mutantturkey@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 March 2012 07:46, E. Liddell ejlddll@googlemail.com wrote:
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 23:54:19 -0500 Kristopher Gamrat chaotickjg@gmail.com wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Calvin Morrison mutantturkey@gmail.com wrote: > > On 5 March 2012 23:26, David C. Rankin drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com wrote: > >> On 03/05/2012 09:45 PM, Kristopher Gamrat wrote: > >>> So far nobody's mentioned Bing. I know many hard-core FOSS peoples > >>> (myself included) would never touch it, but many new users might. > >>> > >> > >> Good point... > > > > I say we ignore it. Don't some of the features require Silverlight? At > > one point they did. My vote is no. > > What's Silverlight? I never heard of it. I just tested Bing in > Firefox, and it worked fine. The video previews in their video search > was a bit glitchy, but I was able to click the videos and watch them > normally. All their other search functions (web, images, maps, news, > and shopping) seemed to operate fine too. Although Bing is way to > flashy for me, and does not operate/organize itself in a way that I'd > consider using it,
Silverlight was Microsoft's attempt at a Flash clone. For obvious reasons, it never really caught on.
While I, personally, dislike Bing and would never use it, I support adding it to the list of search engines, if only to make moving from Windows to Linux with Trinity infinitesimally easier for some people.
Bing also probably doesn't render well or fast on Konqueror, another reason to not use it at least until we switch away from KHTML.
From personal experience, almost nothing renders well in Konqueror anymore. Google is the only thing that does for me out of the sites I normally frequent, and it's forced to use the "old-fashioned" interface from over a year ago because KHTML is severely outdated.
-- Kristopher Gamrat
Google renders well in Konqueror. It just uses the older interface (which imho is cleaner and faster). Bing is partially broken.
That's what I said, isn't it?
-- Kristopher Gamrat
Sigh,
You said most things are broken in Konqueror. I am not concerned about "most things" rendering well. I am trying to make sure a very certain set of defaults render well. Therefore I was being rather particular.
I said nothing about being broken. Please properly read what I am saying. This is why many arguments break out on the Internet -- because people put words in other people's mouths. I just said that most things don't render well, I never said nothing about most things being broken. Most stuff does render, just not very well. We do need most things to render well to make Konqueror a viable browser.