25 Years of Linux — so far

Posted Sep 6, 2016 19:45 UTC (Tue) by zlynx (guest, #2285)
In reply to: 25 Years of Linux — so far by flussence
Parent article: 25 Years of Linux — so far

As I recall it, KHTML got that speed by simply ignoring large chunks of HTML and CSS specs that would have slowed it down. KHTML's page rendering was often -- interesting.

25 Years of Linux — so far

Posted Sep 7, 2016 1:12 UTC (Wed) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

Well, it was missing most of CSS 3. And it didn't live to see HTML 5 finally standardise the parsing of tag soup. And I think I had to file a bug about it sending malformed *HTTP headers* once.

It's pretty dire on today's web, I'll admit (even NetSurf's doing better). But it was pretty good back when Opera couldn't put CSS opacity and text anti-aliasing on a page at the same time, Firefox injected parts of its browser UI into the page's own DOM, and IE... existed...

25 Years of Linux — so far

Posted Sep 7, 2016 1:16 UTC (Wed) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Huh. And now we have plugins which do that (ignore front-page, skipping JS completely or block subsets based on URLs, etc.). Indeed it does make for some…interesting renders, but on the whole, I like it better.