[Wolves] mozilla annoyances ?

Aquarius aquarius-lists at kryogenix.org
Tue Feb 24 17:23:08 GMT 2004


Matthew Revell spoo'd forth:
> Now, my question is: is Gecko a buggy rendering engine? I know that IE 
> has its idiosyncracies, particularly the infamous box model bugs. 
> However, on the website development that I'm producing content for, at 
> work, I've noticed that the design renders pretty much the same in Opera 
> and IE but does some very strange things in Moz. Is it a case of Moz is 
> right and Opera is just trying to fit in with an IE biased world, or has 
> Moz got some rendering problems?

The former. While Gecko isn't 100% on spec, it's about 99.5% on spec. IE
is about 70% on spec, and the Opera people lean more towards the 
pragmatic "emulate IE bugs to make sites work" rather than the Mozilla
team's "break sites if they get it wrong, because otherwise they'll
never fix it".

Aq.

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