Mozilla (Re: [H-GEN] What can i use instead of SSHD?)

[David Jericho]

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On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 09:38, Christian "Vic" Bullow wrote:
> The test suites you are refering to you are far from complete. A better
> statement would be mozilla does not fully support CSS2 and as such
> insufficient for my uses in that I prefer some of the CSS Layer 2 benefits in
> some of the website design and implementation work I do.

*shrug* If as a web designer you haven't realised that at this point in
time, you have to design for browsers, and not a standard, they're
hardly paying attention. 

Given that the Gecko engine as of Moz 1.0 RC3 has the most full featured
CSS2 engine available, and a very good majority (I can't remember what
the latest stat was) of users use IE on Windows, I really don't see what
your gripe is. IE on Windows has the poorest CSS2 implementation of any
of the modern browsers.

> I looked over the style sheets myself just then. They are included in the
> latest 1.1 build of Win32 version of Mozilla. Try any form of CSS2 use of
> text-shadow, first-letter element, or some of ther more interesting 'visual
> effects'
> http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-CSS2-19980512/visufx.html,
> and you will see mozilla go somewhat belly up in many cases.

Mozilla 0.9.9 does infact support first-letter element, but does not
support text-shadow. As far as I could test by making my own CSS2 pages
with the text-shadow attribute IE6 under Windows 2000 doesn't support
text-shadow, nor does NN6.2 on Windows 2000. At least it didn't display
as per the intended effect.

Arguing about the two most compliant web browsers out at the moment does
nothing to solve the problem of the least compliant web browser that
happens to be used by a vast majority of users. 

And I use Konqueror anyway.

-- 
David Jericho
Senior Systems Administrator, Bytecomm Pty Ltd

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