<div dir="ltr">Apparently you don't.<br><br>"Monolithic" when used in reference to a computer system refers to kernel design. It's not really used formally for much else, but it is used informally in circumstances like the one you mentioned.<br>
<br>However, your understanding does not seem to be correct. "Monolithic", used casually, would refer to a program that does all of its functions within itself - single process, single memory space. In your example, Konqueror is indeed just as "monolithic" as everything else you mentioned. As Linus famously demonstrated to that arrogant fool Tanenbaum, being monolithic doesn't make a design bad. It's all about the implementation and the practicalities.<br>
<br>The word you were looking for was _modular_. I won't debate with you how "modular" Konqueror is in relation to other browsers as I don't care and I don't use KDE, but I would point out that Mozilla is "modular" as well by your definition (it uses plugins to handle a lot of things) - probably not as much, but then again "more modular" doesn't logically imply "better" (see my Linus example above) - so your argument is a bit weak.<br>
<br>Jeffrey.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Luke -Jr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:luke@dashjr.org">luke@dashjr.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wednesday 10 September 2008 15:39:25 Jeffrey Watts wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Luke -Jr <<a href="mailto:luke@dashjr.org">luke@dashjr.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> > Monolithic browsers are stupid anyway. Konqueror uses a "plugin" for<br>
> > everything, including HTML. There is no reason to have a proprietary or<br>
> > embedded implementation of a codec in a web browser.<br>
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</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Do you know what monolithic means?<br>
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</div>Of course. Do you know how to reply to emails?<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><br>"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine<br>
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