I think it has more to do with Konqueror development than it does websites
'mangling' things. I went to mcdonalds.com for a homework assignment and not
only did konqueror render things really badly, but it crashed and burned
pretty hard too. I looked at the page source and it really didn't seem to
have anything tricky or sneaky in there - no plugins were required or
anything like that either.
I think we just have to keep in mind is that KDE, Konqueror, and all of these
applications that we(at least I) take for granted are under construction,
even as we use 'stable' versions of them. Oftentimes I find it incredibly
frustrating, but since I didn't really PAY anything for this development to
be done I guess I can't talk too much either.
On Saturday 27 October 2001 07:59 am, Robert N. Eaton wrote to me:
> Hi All,
>
> Just to see what would happen, I visited www.msn.com using Konqueror. I
> wasn't kicked out, but I couldn't read very much. The letters were so
> distorted that it looked a little like Arabic viewed in a mirror. Then,
> a curious thing happened. I jumped from msn.com to UnixReview.com. Lo
> and behold, I couldn't read that page either. I had to shut down and
> restart Konqueror before things cleared up.
>
> Question: Does msn.com load some sort of font mangler so that
> non-Micro$oft browsers are temporarily infected?
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