Re: Browsers, of the web variety

[Maher Awamy <muhri muhri net>]

KDE's KFM is a good choice to browse light web pages.. the KFM included in KDE
1.1.2 is much more stable and robust than earlier versions in my experience.. I
tried to browse html pages in Gnome Help with no luck..it doesn't even attempt
to load anything and gives an error.. Gzilla looks promising as an alternative
but like Ben said it is in its infancy and has no support for tables or frames
yet. 

Maher
http://www.muhri.net

On Sat, 09 Oct 1999, Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lizard <lizard@mrlizard.com>
> To: <gnome-list@gnome.org>
> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 1999 3:04 PM
> Subject: Browsers, of the web variety
> 
> 
> > There is a scene in Black Adder III where the Duke of Wellington is
> berating the
> > state of the English nobility. "We have the finest armies, the finest
> navies,
> > the finest industries...and what do we have for royalty? A mad Kraut
> > sausage-sucker."
> >
> > Lest you think I mangled my aliases and this supposed to go to
> Blackadder-l or
> > possibly german-bashing-l, let me explain what brought that on. I have
> just
> > watched Netscape disappear from my screen sans explanation for, oh, the
> seventh
> > time this morning. And I've only been online for half an hour. There are,
> in the
> > X world, word processors, mailers, newsreaders (Granted, Pan just
> > died on me too, but it's admittedly alpha sw, which NS *isn't*.
> (Admittedly,
> > that is.)), art programs, etc...why no web browsers? Is there anything
> stable
> > that exists between lynx and Netscape? (Why don't the Opera people port to
> > Linux?) What do all y'all longtime gnomies use?
> >
> > Or shall we all, Godot like, wait for Mozilla? (I saw the /. link to M10.
> > Reading the 'not yet implemented' list convinced me to wait a bit.)
> 
> [this is not intended as flame bait :-)]
> 
> I tried KDE for a few days (to avoid ignorance and to see what the other
> side is doing) and while I didn't like the interface much at all (gnome
> seemed much easier to use) the one thing that KDE has and does well is KFM.
> It's quite a decent, stable light(er)weight graphich web browser.
> 
> That said, there's also gnome help which _can_ view web pages (not too well)
> and also gzilla which is still in its infancy.
> 
> No great answers to your question, unfortunately, but some :-)
> 
> What I'd like to see (and I think may be in the works) is mozilla's html
> rendering inside a nice lightweight GTK UI.
> 
> --Ben
> 
> 
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