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interface from over a year ago because KHTML is severely outdated.

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Kristopher Gamrat