On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote: > On 6 March 2012 12:07, Kristopher Gamrat <chaotickjg@...> wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote: >>> On 6 March 2012 07:46, E. Liddell <ejlddll@...> wrote: >>>> On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 23:54:19 -0500 >>>> Kristopher Gamrat <chaotickjg@...> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 11:40 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey@...> wrote: >>>>> > On 5 March 2012 23:26, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@...> wrote: >>>>> >> On 03/05/2012 09:45 PM, Kristopher Gamrat wrote: >>>>> >>> So far nobody's mentioned Bing. I know many hard-core FOSS peoples >>>>> >>> (myself included) would never touch it, but many new users might. >>>>> >>> >>>>> >> >>>>> >> Good point... >>>>> > >>>>> > I say we ignore it. Don't some of the features require Silverlight? At >>>>> > one point they did. My vote is no. >>>>> >>>>> What's Silverlight? I never heard of it. I just tested Bing in >>>>> Firefox, and it worked fine. The video previews in their video search >>>>> was a bit glitchy, but I was able to click the videos and watch them >>>>> normally. All their other search functions (web, images, maps, news, >>>>> and shopping) seemed to operate fine too. Although Bing is way to >>>>> flashy for me, and does not operate/organize itself in a way that I'd >>>>> consider using it, >>>> >>>> Silverlight was Microsoft's attempt at a Flash clone. �For obvious reasons, >>>> it never really caught on. >>>> >>>> While I, personally, dislike Bing and would never use it, I support adding it >>>> to the list of search engines, if only to make moving from Windows to >>>> Linux with Trinity infinitesimally easier for some people. >>>> >>> >>> Bing also probably doesn't render well or fast on Konqueror, another >>> reason to not use it at least until we switch away from KHTML. >> >> From personal experience, almost nothing renders well in Konqueror >> anymore. Google is the only thing that does for me out of the sites I >> normally frequent, and it's forced to use the "old-fashioned" >> interface from over a year ago because KHTML is severely outdated. >> >> -- >> Kristopher Gamrat >> > > Google renders well in Konqueror. It just uses the older interface > (which imho is cleaner and faster). Bing is partially broken. That's what I said, isn't it? -- Kristopher Gamrat