Idealism vs Realism

Sometimes, just sometimes, idealism must give ways to realism.

As much as I like the idealism of KHTML, I've to be realistic that many Javascript-heavy websites such as “fb.c” work better with Webkit. Well, it shouldn't be surprising since Webkit (which is a derivative of KHTML) is THE engine that powers up Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome. Therefore, it's expected to have a better compatibility with many websites out there.

And the combination of Konqueror+Webkit in KDE-4.3 (beta-1) seems promising enough --- apart from the occasional benign crashes due to “nsplugginwrapper”. In KDE-4.2 (or before), I didn't use this combo because (i) it's unstable, and (ii) Webkit ignored all my settings particularly the font size.

Still, it shows that idealism is not for nothing. In fact, it arguably occupies a significant place in society & history. Without KHTML, would Safari and Chrome be born? In a way, this reminds me to scientific research, where theories and their applications can be separated by decades.