I expected KHTML's lagging behind web specifications to lead to some kind of massive change before now. Nevertheless, I'm not appreciative of what seems to be the current plan.
1-I am in favor of any names that begin with either K or Q, as these naturally and beautifully identify any application as a good fit to the QT-toolkit-based KDE environment providing it. 2-"Zilla" IMO has no legitimate place in the name of any web browser that is not built using a Mozilla browser engine. Mozilla-engined browsers are the only browsers whose engine development and goals are not driven by pecuniary mega-corporate interests Google, Microsoft and Apple. Thus QupZilla is a bad name as long as neither of Mozilla's rendering engines form its heart. 3-Mozilla users have long deserved a reliable, full-featured, QT-toolkit-based web browser, one not dependent upon being built using GTK. KDE would be a natural environment for fulfilling that need. 4-Konqueror's KHTML remains the sole current web engine capable of by default permitting a computer to do with web content what it was designed to do, automatically compute, and render, object sizes with accuracy. Some years ago, web standards were inexplicably changed to dispense with this ability with the stated goal of diverting blame away from browsers for poorly rendering incompetently constructed web designs. Blink, Edge, Trident and Webkit engines all complied unconditionally. Mozilla's Gecko engine reserved a proprietary facility to retain the ability, but otherwise complied. Konqueror, configured to use KHTML, failed to comply. By so doing, it remains the only web browser able to automatically, or at all (other than by happenstance), render objects at accurate physical sizes. To do so KHTML depends only on Xorg, or its equivalent, such as Wayland, to provide a logical display density that equals physical display density. Thus, Konqueror using KHTML remains the only current web browser which unconditionally permits automatic rendering where a displayed inch measures an inch, a centimeter a centimeter, and a point a point. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
