Sent by CodeBitch on 31 January 2003 23:11
On 30/1/03 10:48 AM, [EMAIL-REMOVED]"
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1/29/03 5:22 PM, Saila, Craig at [EMAIL-REMOVED] wrote:
>
>> As for its audience, I'd say, based on anecdotal evidence, it is tiny --
>> Chimera, Safari, IE 5, NN 4, OmniWeb, and even Opera likely have a
>> bigger market share.
This relative statement accords with MacEdition's stats. MacEdition attracts
about two-thirds Mac users in its human readership (ie pageviews excluding
known robots). iCab represents about 1% and falling of our human
readership. Mac OS X users only use iCab in small numbers (around 0.5%),
while it's higher for users of OS 9 and especially older Macs, so it could
be higher for sites that attract a lot of users of older machines. Please
email me off-list if you would like more information on these stats, that's
not answered in my earlier columns on the subject.
>
> That was my thinking... Barely any developers use it... I doubt the surfing
> public for the most part has a clue of it's existence... And who knows that
> Safari won't put the little cab out of business if they get their act
> together...
>
> I passed the info on to my client... Thanks for the link too... That was
> helpful. :)
CSS support in iCab is comprehensively documented at MacEdition:
http://www.macedition.com/cb/resources/macbrowsercsssupport.html
Main points:
* gets margins wrong in that margin:0px doesn't eliminate margins on
elements like <p> and <h3> that have margins by default
* no floats, no positioning, forget about any kind of CSS layout working
* inline and table elements don't accept many styles like borders
* replicates many bugs of Netscape 4, including failure to inherit font
styles defined on BODY into tables. See the links from the MacEdition guide.
In a nutshell, iCab's CSS support is actually worse than OmniWeb's, but
usually in less egregiously misunderstood-the-specs ways. Unlike OmniWeb it
gets the box model right, sort of.
Hope that helps.
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