new mapserver site for Central America; thanks for all the help!
Puneet Kishor
punkish at EIDESIS.ORG
Sun Mar 12 10:14:51 PST 2006
Here is an interesting extract from the Wikipedia that supports my
statement below --
On Mar 12, 2006, at 11:59 AM, Emilio Mayorga wrote:
> Puneet & Blaise,
>
> Thank you for your feedback. I test with Firefox and IE, but have
> never tried a KHTML-based browser (either Safari or Konqueror). I
> didn't realize that Gecko was more forgiving of non-standard HTML than
> KHTML, that's great to know.
> KHTML is the HTML layout engine developed by the KDE project.
> Built on the then new KPart framework, it was introduced with KDE2 in
> 2000, for use in the new Konqueror file and web browser which replaced
> the monolithic KDE File Manager. Written in C++ and licensed under the
> LGPL, it supports most of the standards related to web browsing. In an
> attempt to render as many pages as possible, some extra abilities and
> quirks from Internet Explorer are supported, even though they are not
> part of the HTML standard definition.
> KHTML is fast, but currently less error tolerant than the Gecko layout
> engine, its main open source rival and core of the Mozilla and Mozilla
> Firefox browsers, among others.
Note the last line above.
--
Puneet Kishor
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