Browsing the Browsers
- July 26, 2003
- 3 comments
I decided I needed to download and try out my site in other browsers. I already had Safari, IE and Camino. I skipped OmniWeb for now because the last time I tried using their beta it crashed my Mac… hard. I ended up getting the latest versions of iCab, Opera and Mozilla. I imagined Firebird would be similar, if not exactly the same as Mozilla, so I skipped it too.
iCab: My site looks absolutely horrible in iCab. I mean horrible. A browser that doesn’t support CSS could make the site look better! iCab is very fast at rendering, but what good is speed if it looks like crap?
Opera: Opera won’t even run on my iMac with Panther. I suggest they fix that problem fast since it will be coming out in a few short months.
Mozilla: By far, the best of the three I downloaded today. It renders my site perfectly, just as Safari does.
Surprisingly, Camino doesn’t quite render my site correctly even though it’s using the same Gecko engine Mozilla uses. Maybe Camino is using a slightly older version of Gecko?
So all that downloading and only one was worth downloading in the end! You live and learn.
Chris
He, Firebird is quite different you know. Maybe it uses the same engine, but it’s quite faster and leaner than Mozilla. It is my standard browser on my PC.