Fwd: [dot-notify] When will Konqueror become the number two browser?

[Waldo Bastian]

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Subject: [dot-notify] When will Konqueror become the number two browser?
Date: Saturday 14 June 2003 18:52
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Subject: When will Konqueror become the number two browser?
From: David Jeske <jeske-kde at chat.net>
Date: Saturday 14/Jun/2003, @18:52

Apple's adoption of KHTML for Safari, and Microsoft's waning effort on Mac IE
 has opened the door for Konqueror/KHTML to become the number two browser.
 All that stands in the way is a Windows port. If KHTML were on Windows, many
 more users would be able to run it, more websites would be compliant, and
 more developers would be available to help improve KHTML's capabilities.
 When will Konqueror/KHTML be ported to Windows?

When I do development, it is for high-performance, high-reliability web
 software which runs on Linux or *BSD. Yahoo Groups is the biggest example,
 more will come in the future. I'm tired of the
 Mozilla-is-standards-compliant-so-shove-off attitude towards the bugs I find
 when trying to use their DHTML support. Among my coworkers, I'm famous for
 the quote "I'd rather fix Konqueror than support Mozilla". Primarily because
 the Konqueror team knows that web compliance (which in many cases means IE
 compliance) is the goal, not some non-compatible holy-standard-compliance.

I'd be thrilled to support Konqueror, and contribute DHTML conforance tests
 and fixes. However, to do this it needs to run on Windows, because I don't
 run Linux on the desktop ( here is why , sorry kde folks). Any news on when
 this might happen?

This KHTML on Win32 project was started and needs developers skilled in KDE
 and Win32 to help out. Talk of the free non-commercial use of Qt/Windows was
 big when it was released, but nothing has come of it. What is the right way
 to get Konqueror on win32?

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