Re: Difference Epiphaney - MS Explorer

["Magnus Therning" <magnus therning org>]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Mats Olofsson
<mats olofsson mbox321 swipnet se> wrote:
> Hello!
>
>
> I have sometime found som small differences between the way Epiphaney
> and MS Explorer show html-websites.
>
> In general when Epiphaney show these sites where differencesappear, text
> is often mixed with an other text or there is a line break where it
> should not bee one.
>
> One example is the Swedish website eniro.se. When the "supersök" option
> is selected, the textbox is moved a line down, and when the option
> "websök" is selected the text near the option, is mixed whit other text.
>
> In MS Explorer these faults does not appear.

I don't see this particular bug so it doesn't seem to be a "general
epiphany bug" but a bug specific to a version (or a Linux distro).
I'm running Epiphany on Debian Sid (pkg version 2.22.3-9).

> I have also found differences in other websites and it seems that it in
> most cases is a line break that make the trubble - i.e. a line break
> there it should not bee one.
>
> Epiphaney is a good browser and this beauty spot perhaps lead to that
> people choose an other.

As other posters have pointed out there are rendering bugs in all
browsers, when one looks better than others it usually means that the
web site developers have worked around the peculiarities of one
particular renderer.  Unfortunately that often means they've used IE.
It is possible to write web sites that look good in _all_ browsers,
but it requires a little extra work.  The Mozilla people have a few
pages on the topic:
https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Using_Web_Standards_in_your_Web_Pages
.  They also have instructions on how to get site owners to get with
the times and write proper pages:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/users.html .

/M

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