Feeling like a 2nd class citizen

[Dotan Cohen]

On 27/11/2007, Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net> wrote:
> Good evening,
>
> I know I probablly shouldn't be posting this to both lists, but I couldn't
> figure out which one would be better to post to.
>
> I am getting frustrated with using Konqueror as my default browser.  I
> don't know if I just have some problems, or its the fact that I am running
> 64-bit Kubuntu, but it is getting to the point that browsing the web is
> just easier, and more fun in Internet Explorer.
>
> I know that Google and GMail don't always play nice with Konqueror and
> have lived to accept it, but it is other sites that I am getting sick of
> trying to deal with.
> I can to a page, an example being Facebook, and not get all of the images
> or all of the links to work.  I go to a travel site to book airplane
> tickets and get to use the "basic" settings, I go to a page and am told
> flash is not installed when I do have the non-free version of flash
> installed or even better I click on a link and nothing happens until I
> click on the link 3 or 4 times and finally the "gear" starts spinning and
> I get the page I want.  Another fun problem is when I increase the font
> size the text blurs together and I can't read it.... or go to a page that
> has a form and the text runs into the form so I don't really know what I'm
> filling out.
>
> Is it just that I need to switch to Firefox on my Kubuntu install?  Or
> should I stick to browsing the web in my XP VM, cause things "just work"
> there.

What websites do not work properly in Konqueror? If you list specific
websites and specific problems, I personally will confirm the problems
and write to the webmasters. Konqueror is more standards-compliant
that either Firefox or IE, and websites that do not display properly
are obviously poorly coded. A common reason for this is that the sites
code to display properly according to Internet Explorer's bugs. This
is a flawed approach for many reasons, one of which is that IE's flaws
change from version to version.

That said, I myself browse in Firefox.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?