Pinderkent

Pain and glory from the trenches of the IT world.

Konqueror is available to almost everyone.

Posted on Sunday, February 04, 2007 at 4:53 PM.

Konqueror is a web browser developed as part of the KDE project. KDE is, of course, one of the major open source desktop environments. Over time, Konqueror has become well-known for its high quality and standards-compliance. So I really wasn't surprised when today I read an article stating that KHTML 3.5.6 is the most CSS3-compliant browser. The article does make one comment that I would like to address, however: It really is a shame that only a tiny proportion of web users have access to this excellent browser.

I would consider that statement to be incorrect. Virtually every web user can use Konqueror. All they would need to do is install an operating system like Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Solaris, or Mac OS X. For most people, at least one of those operating systems will run on some piece of hardware they have available. And easily enough they'll be able to install KDE, and be able to experience the full benefit of Konqueror for themselves. Of course, that will change once KDE 4, which will likely offer native support for Windows systems, is released.

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