should Konqueror render invalid HTML?

[Michael Wardle]

Hi

(I am not currently subscribed to the Konqueror mailing list.  I would 
appreciate it if you copied me on any response.)

I just performed a search for Konqueror bugs on <http://bugs.kde.org>, 
and noticed there were a substantial number of bugs reported either 
expecting Konqueror to render invalid HTML or to work "like Netscape 
does" or "like Internet Explorer does" on badly-written sites.

Is it the Konqueror developers' desire to make Konqueror work on invalid 
HTML, especially when doing so might render valid HTML pages 
incorrectly?

As I would rather a fast, small, and standards-compliant browser, I 
would enjoy going thru KDE bugs and closing ones which ask for broken 
pages to be rendered "right", but perhaps you would rather I didn't.

Could somebody from the development team please comment on what the 
objectives of Konqueror are and how you would like such bugs handled.

I searched the kfm-devel archives and couldn't find a relevant answer to 
this question, however it is of course fine for you to point me there 
if I have missed something.

Thanks

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Michael Wardle
Adacel Technologies