Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Mon 3rd Sep 2001 17:24 UTC
Today we are hosting an exclusive interview with the Konqueror team, KDE's integrated filemanager, image/document viewer and web browser. Dirk Mueller, Waldo Bastian, Carsten Pfeiffer and Simon Hausmann are answering questions regarding the future of Konqueror, its portability and the integration with QT3.
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KDE is nice, and the interview is interesting, but I'll carp at the statement that it is important for the user to see the fonts chosen by the webmaster. On the contrary, the user should be assumed to have chosen the fonts, sizes, colours, and other factors for their display that makes it work best for them. These should rarely be over-ridden by anyone else. The insistence on a specific font for display will, for instance, be particularly unhelpful to those using a reader because they cannot see the page, but also anyone looking at the page using WebTV, a PDA or a new gadget which is invented next week and displays in an unanticipated way. Stick to providing the information, and meta-information about what it means, and leave the maximum possible amount to the user-agent. From the konqueror point of view, one of the ways in which browser dependence and OS dependence is driven is by adding marginal features to the servers and html authoring software that are coordinated to a single browser... joining in with that is not a good idea for a minority browser, whereas sticking with real rules is.