Sent by Mike Marco on 22 June 2003 11:11
Kevin W wrote:
> Just beware of getting into a false sense of security. Even Mozilla still
> has a lot of important quirks which Opera or Safari/Konqeror don't have.
>
> And sometimes, there are multiple interpretations of the CSS Spec and it's
> easy to make the mistake that Mozilla's way is always right and the other
> interpretations must be wrong.
True on all counts, but Opera and Safari/Konqueror also have quirks. For
example, Safari defaults to 72 dpi fonts (the Mac standard). The de facto
standard (thanks to Windows) is 96 dpi, something that the developers of
IE5/Mac (rest in peace) and Mozilla (and Mozilla-based projects such as
Camino) kept in mind. (I'm not trying to prove that one is better than the
other, though I do find the difference annoying when working with relative
units.) Also, I find that Opera 7 sometimes does funny things to floated
block-level elements with unspecified widths. (I'll follow this up with an
example eventually; I don't happen to have one handy at the moment.)
Though Moz has its CSS quirks, to be certain, I find that it renders as
expected about 99.9% of the time, at least in my experience. That is, Moz
renders CSS more or less in line with my understanding of the CSS spec. (I
actually use the official specs as documentation, having committed browser
compatibility quirks to memory. Really, I learn them as I go.)
My verdict? Moz is a good guide, but it certainly isn't Gospel. Cross-check
in as many browser and platform combinations as you can--we've come a long
way, but it'll be a long time before we can do away with that.
Anyway, that's my $0.02.
-MikeM
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