Springer web pages disallow Konqueror web browser

[Dawit A]

I am always baffled why kwebkitpart never seems to work correctly for a lot
of websites on some distributions, but not others. For example, the link
you supplied works perfectly well on my ArchLinux box with QtWebKit 2.2.
Moreover, WebKit is a lot faster for me than the default khtml engine. I
wish I could identify the source for these discrepancies on different
distros.

The crashes are issues in QtWebKit itself. More specifically when the last
stable branched off from the main webkit tree. The current QtWebkit 2.3
branch [1] which likely will never see a stable release is actually much
better option for the distros to track. Unfortunately, most will never do
that because they want officially released packages only, which in this day
and age is meaningless for browser engines. Oh well...

[1] http://blogs.kde.org/2012/11/14/introducing-qtwebkit-23


On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Oliver Kullmann <O.Kullmann at swansea.ac.uk>wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 10:35:42AM +0100, David Faure wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 October 2012 03:11:32 Gérard Talbot wrote:
> > > I think it's time to switch to another browser now otherwise to another
> > > rendering engine if you still want to use Konqueror as a web browser.
> >
> > Yeah, you're mixing KHTML and konqueror a bit.
> >
> > If you install kwebkitpart, konqueror will now use that instead of KHTML
> (and
> > it's configurable in the konq config dialog).
> >
> > So Oliver can keep benefiting from Konqueror's great configurability
> (e.g. the
> > UserAgent string, etc.), while using a better (for most use cases)
> rendering
> > engine.
> >
>
> I'm using Suse 12.2, and there Konqueror has "WebKit" as the default
> engine. So the web-browsing experience isn't too bad: it's a bit slow,
> and some crashes, and some pages aren't shown at all, for example
> http://ad-sinistram.blogspot.co.uk/
> but fortunately we have the nice functionality of "open in another
> browser" (I wish other broswers had this as well), and altogether it's
> alright.
>
> Oliver
>
>
>
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