[WebKit-devel] webkit-kpart and gmail

Alon Bar-Lev alon.barlev at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 07:50:53 CET 2009


On 2/3/09, Michael Howell <mhowell123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Monday 02 February 2009 5:45:26 am Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > I finally succeeded in migrating from kde-3.5 to kde-4.2!
>  >
>  > A while ago I was using arora browser which is based on qt-webkit to
>  > simulate how it would be if I use konqueror with webkit-kpart.
>  >
>  > Although both of them using the same version of qt-webkit, there is a
>  > difference between the two.
>  >
>  > As far as I see the UserAgent string is sent without "AppleWebKit/412" id,
>  > should this be send?
>  >
>  > Is there any configuration needed in order to make gmail work properly in
>  > standard view?
>  >
>  > Konqueor-3.5 worked well with faked agent of Mozilla-1.7.3, while konqeuror
>  > 4.2 does not.
>  >
>  > I thought that using WebKit all problems will be solved, as Gmail supports
>  > WebKit.
>  >
>  > For now I am using arora for gmail.
>  >
>  > Any help will be appreciated.
>  > Thanks!
>  > Alon.

>  As far as I know, the user agent should be sent with the WebKit version in it.
>  Any trouble you have with GMail is a bug, unless, of course, you didn't use
>  WebKit (View->View Mode->WebKit) (Settings->Configure Konqueror->File
>  Management->File Associations->text->html->Embedding). Yes, I know the switch
>  is slightly (read: mountainously) complicated.

I did switch correctly... Also via View->View Mode->WebKit
Which component has a bug gmail or webkit-kpart?

Thanks!
Alon.


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