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 interface from over a year ago because KHTML is severely outdated.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. http://duckduckgo.com/html/ and http://duckduckgo.com/lite/ are also lighter versions of DDG that probably render better. Calvin