[thelist] Browser and standards question

Diane Soini dianesoini at earthlink.net
Wed Jul 30 21:35:09 CDT 2003


I have a question maybe you can answer. I use a Mac and have Safari and 
Internet Explorer 5.2 installed. I've also got Camino. I aspire to 
standards compliant code (css and xhtml), but I don't know which 
browser actually supports the standards the best. I just want to 
experiment around with code, not do it for production, so what I'm 
wanting to do is write standards complaint code but not worry about 
hacks and tricks to make it work in every browser. I want to pick a 
browser that supports the standards the best and use it in my 
experimenting around.

So, which Mac browser is the least buggy? And of the least buggy 
browser, is there somewhere where I can read (in plain English) what 
the bugs I'm likely to encounter (nothing too obscure, in other words) 
are? Like "such-and-such browser screws up this css standard, so your 
results are likely to look like this ugly example" but no discussions 
that sound like "how-many-angels-can-dance-on-the-head-of-a-pin"-type 
bugs.

Thanks!



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