Why do people dislike Dolphin?

[Derek Broughton]

Art Alexion wrote:

> On Wednesday 05 November 2008 1:34:32 pm Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> 2008/11/5 Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>:
>> > Not to mention an attitude change from the developers who refuse to do
>> > something wrong, just because everybody else does it.  If a web page
>> > displays in FF and IE, then it has to display equally well in
>> > Konqueror, whether or not it complies with standards.
>>
>> Could you post some example websites?
> 
> I just lent a friend a Kubuntu laptop.  When I set him up as a user, I
> never logged on as him so I forgot to create a memu or desktop icon for
> firefox (I installed in /opt rather than the repos because I didn't want
> to install the repos gnome dependencies.)
> 
> So naturally, he clicked Konqueror (which Kubuntu calls "Konqueror Web
> Browser").  I get a paniced call from him that he can't do anything in
> Hotmail.  It displays, but when he clicks on stuff, nothing happens.
> 
> After testing Hotmail in Firefox and determining that it works fine, I
> realized he was using Konqueror.  So I walked him through starting Firefox
> via Alt+ F2, and all was well again.
> 
> You may say, "Hotmail is evil and ignores standards."
> 
> "So what," I reply, "are you saying former Windows users with established
> Hotmail accounts aren't welcome to KDE?"

Right.  That site!  I completely forgot that my wife's primary browser is
Firefox because I can't get her to drop hotmail, and I couldn't make it
work in Konqueror.
-- 
derek