Konqueror Compatibility Team proposal

[Jesse Hannah]

On Saturday, 19 August 2006 06:03, Rigo Wenning wrote:
> http://www.w3.org/2006/webapi/
>
> Anybody willing to help with the testsuite?

Hmm, sounds interesting. I'll check that out.

> Naturally I know that it is much more fun to see it working directly and
> hunt to the next website that doesn't work. But IMHO the Web is simply too
> big to resolve the issues only with the "make-site-work" approach.
> Sometimes, I think it is even harmful for interoperability that browsers
> are so tolerant concerning broken markup and scripting.

This was sort of brought up by Allan earlier in the thread--one thing that 
we'll definitely do is look deeper into any [site-issue] bugs that the KHTML 
developers decide not to deal with, as well as any major obvious ones 
(Gmail), and just sites that we use every day that don't quite work right in 
Konqueror (NWN and Gmail for me). So it won't exactly be just hunting from 
site to site to find ones that don't work.

Plus we can also post details in a tracker of some sort about the problems 
that we find and how they were resolved, to be used as an easy reference and 
really eliminating the need to go from site to site to find things that don't 
work. In essence, we'll be creating a database of exactly what things break 
Konqueror; either ways that Javascript doesn't work, or how XHTML or CSS 
errors or bad code do weird things--also direclty encouraging people to be a 
lot more careful with their code and not relying on a specific browser's 
tolerance for broken markup. Like I said, we'll probably have a lot of 
interaction with the W3C about publicizing the importance of the various web 
standards. (Hope I didn't miss anything...feel free to point out any 
remaining holes in the plan, as there are still sure to be some :P )

> I don't want to discourage the creation of the group, I just wanted to
> point you to another aspect that might be important and I think you got it.

Like I said, I'm completely open to any input anyone has. Thanks again. :)

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