Safari is NOT Konqueror

February 22nd, 2007 by ailon

In response to our fundraising effort I’ve got a couple of emails suggesting that Safari compatibility can be developed and tested using Konqueror browser on Linux since apparently Safari is based on KHTML rendering engine. I’m not an expert in Konqueror (and Safari for that matter) but from what I’ve googled there’s no so called “designMode=on” functionality in Konqueror:

——- Additional Comment #22 From Leo Savernik 2006-03-22 19:40 ——-
Suspended indefinitely.
A merge from Webcore will be done when the infrastructure is in place. Don’t even think about expecting it before KDE 4.

So there’s no other reasonable way to implement Safari functionality than using an actual Mac and we really need your help for this to happen.

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