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From: Teresa and Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and javascript
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 20:46:24
Message-Id: 449AFD15.7040508@vista-express.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Konqueror and javascript by Etaoin Shrdlu
1 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
2
3 >After upgrading to kde 3.5.2, I noticed that simply going to
4 >http://www.microsoft.com :-) crashed konqueror consistently even on
5 >different machines.
6 >Enabling javascript debug, I found that, before crashing, a javascript
7 >error was produced.
8 >Then I did some tests to verify konqueror's javascript support status,
9 >and I found that lots of sites which use javascript are not working (or
10 >only partially working) with konqueror, while all seems well with
11 >firefox and ie.
12 >Now, I have no special knowledge of javascript, so my question is: are
13 >these problems due (as happened some times in the past) to konqueror
14 >being too strict (and firefox and ie being more permissive) about
15 >javascript or, rather, is konqueror's javascript support that is buggy
16 >(although this sounds strange to me)?
17 >
18 >Thanks
19 >
20 >
21
22 I think I saw this a week or so ago on linuxquestions forums. You may
23 want to check there too. From what I have read, M$ does not use the
24 internet standard and web browsers that do seem to crash.
25
26 I recently ran into something similiar with shockwave on the disney
27 website.
28
29 Dale
30 :-) :-)
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