Konqueror Compatibility Team proposal

[Jesse Hannah]

On Friday, 18 August 2006 00:33, Rigo Wenning wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> while this might be a great idea, compatibility is also an issue of
> standardization. I do not think Konqueror crashes on sites that are valid
> XHTML and CSS.

I've already mentioned the Gmail/Google Calendar example. I think it unlikely 
that the problems with those sites come from XHTML/CSS invalidity. :P 
Sometimes it does just come down to the way that some things are written in 
the page and how KHTML interprets them. In Gmail's case, for example, it's 
likely that most of it is problems with Javascript; another example is the 
Neverwinter Nights home page, <http://nwn.bioware.com>, which has Javascript 
popup menus that don't work in Konqueror without masking the browser 
identification.

> So my suggestion is that you also contact the W3C QA folks to help them
> explain to sites the benefit of having valid XHTML and CSS, help to improve
> the validators and so on. This will benefit konqueror but also other
> browsers.

But this is a very good point, sometimes what appears to be a compatibility 
problem will just be an error that deviates from the W3C standards. To deal 
with cases like that, maybe it would be a good idea for the Compatibility 
Team (maybe have a small sub-team) to work with the W3C to make a PDF 
pamphlet or web page or something to inform web developers on the importance 
of and how to make a web site be fully valid XHTML/CSS/etc.

Thank you for the input. :)
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