Topic: Browser Showdown

[nic]

Safari is based on KHTML, which is the HTML engine of Konqueror, the KDE/Linux browser

[jpschust]

it was written to lock out other non-major browsers.  dont ask me why.  supposedly starting next week it is supposed to start just warning that you arent using a supported browser and then allow you to continue.  ill believe it when i see it

[Brian Skalinder]

As much as I'd love to switch to opera or firefox, IE6 is still the most compatible - so that's what I use.

Once opera gets a little more compatible I might switch to that.  I really like a lightweight browser.  Firefox seems as clunky and slow as NS ever was.  Sure it's a little more compatible than NSx, but nowhere near perfect.

I've had compatibility issues with Opera as well, though haven't experienced any with Firefox.  I love the tabbed browsing in Firefox, and really really really love the keyboard navigation - makes it so I can rip through TS.com (and most other sites that aren't god-awful over-done with Flash and such) without having to use the damn rodent.  Nice!!

Because of the way Firefox loads pages, I initially thought it was slower than IE, but it's actually faster IME.

[mgleason007]

As much as I'd love to switch to opera or firefox, IE6 is still the most compatible - so that's what I use.

Once opera gets a little more compatible I might switch to that.  I really like a lightweight browser.  Firefox seems as clunky and slow as NS ever was.  Sure it's a little more compatible than NSx, but nowhere near perfect.

--mizary

Hmmm, very interesting comments.  I typically have about 8 browser windows or so open.  It sucked ass before I installed Firebird (now Firefox).  I can't imagine using anything else.  Yeah there's the occasional site that doesn't work properly, but a) it's because of poor coding on the web page, and b) how hard is it to fire up IE for that site?

And yeah Ska, I would have to agree.  Tables load as they come in with Firefox, whereas you have to wait for the whole thing to download before it will appear in IE.  I like that a lot.

Plus I've had IE crash on me a LOT more than I've had Firefox do so.

[Nick in Edinboro]

+T to mirth for the only text browser on the list

Anything with tabbed browsing is king for me.  I like to multitask a lot with my broadband and am doing shit on all sorts of sites at the same time.  I used to use Konquorer (which Safari is based on) but while it renders pages beautifully (clean anti-aliased fonts, etc.) it is much slower then both Mozilla and Navigator for me.  Reasons unknown but the difference is measurable, I chaulk it up to it's nice rendering really.

Unfortunately for me I am a web developer and 99.54984323% of my clients/users are on IE so I develop and debug using IE6.

[Chris K]

safari

[jpschust]

wow, thats a pretty specific stat on your clients browsers :-P