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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