[thelist] Browser and standards question
Frank
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Thu Jul 31 06:40:38 CDT 2003
At 07:35 PM 2003-07-30 -0700, you wrote:
>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.
Diane,
My experience is that no browser is flawless, and it's a fact of life that
all will need work-arounds at some point. That being said, on the Mac side,
I would say that Mozilla, it's derivatives, and Safari are excellent
browsers. I was pleasantly surprised at how well Moz and Safari mimicked
each other. And Safari seems to be getting even better, quickly and regularly.
The counter to this is that (Mac) IE --by relative comparison-- does a poor
job of handling CSS (and Javascript! Grr!). It's my experience that when
building standard compliant documents, that inevitably IE (both Mac and PC)
will bullocks the job up, and require about 60% of the development time to
equalize. I'd like to say that this observation a prejudice against MS's
products, but it's not. It's the *cause* of my prejudice.
[Tangent - I'll probably owe a tip for this]
I'm finding that open-source/small developer products seem to have the
tendency to adhere to standards better than large companies, possibly
because they are developed by developers on their own time. Most good
developers seem to share certain character traits, such as a zeal for
meeting standards as a means to a good reputation, a love of good products
as an art form, and the challenge of doing things right for the simple
satisfaction of having it done right.
Further, most probably don't have marketers/managers breathing down their
neck shouting "Deliver! Time to Market! "Good enough' is good enough! Ship
now, fix the flaws later!"
My observations/opinions.
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