[arch-general] usable browser?

Armando M. Baratti ambaratti.listas at gmail.com
Sun Nov 29 19:30:47 EST 2009


Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:05:11 -0800
> Tobias Kieslich <tobias at justdreams.de> wrote:
> 
>> Don't jump to conclusions here. Inspecting the headers (..)
> 
> yes this a known issue. libsoup doesn't support compression, and some
> sites send out gzipped content when they shouldn't.
> So lxde.org and others cannot be used on webkitGtk based browsers.
> Even wikipedia does it!
> 
> but then again, I did ask for examples of *broken* websites that do not
> work well in webkitGtk, so this is a good example.  (but libsoup should
> gain gzip support soon, I've heard).
> 
> Please let me know more sites that do not work with webkitGtk for other
> reasons than this, both broken and correct sites are welcome.
> 
> Dieter
> 

Strange, Midori (webkit based) works fine with http://www.lxde.org/ here.
Are you talking about some specific part of the site?
Or Midori has something other webkit based browsers don't?

Using libsoup 2.28.1-1.


Armando


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