On 6 March 2012 13:03, Kristopher Gamrat <chaotickjg@...> wrote: > 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 interface from over a year ago because KHTML is severely outdated.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 > Sigh, You said most things are broken in Konqueror. I am not concerned about "most things" rendering well. I am trying to make sure a very certain set of defaults render well. Therefore I was being rather particular. Calvin