thanks that cleared all my questions. On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 13:59 +0200, Kristoffer Lundén wrote: > On 4/21/06, Dev Tugnait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Been seeing a lot of buzz about this with opera. What's epiphany's > > viewpoint on this. I gave it a shot and yeah the image is distorted. > > While I can't speak for the Epiphany team, since I am not one of them... > > First, it's Mozillas Gecko engine that does the rendering, so unless > the Epiphany team joins Gecko and start patching, it's out of their > hands. > > Second, and this is my personal opinion, I think that the ACID test is > of small importance other than for possible bragging rights. Don't get > me wrong, I rely heavily on CSS myself, and I'm all for better support > of it in all ways. But the ACID test mostly tests quite arcane edge > cases and that fallbacks works correctly, stuff that rarely if ever > occurs in nature. Case in point is, how many pages do you happen upon > that is broken in Epiphany/Firefox but that works in Opera/Safari? And > the other way around? > > So, while it makes for nice PR, and especially gives their users more > forum-ammo, it doesn't really have any impact on what makes a good > browser, at least not today. And you have to wonder, those resources > spent apparently exclusively to pass this test, what could it have > been used for instead? As CSS and other support gets implemented > anyways, eventually those things will be fixed in Gecko, too. > > -- Kristoffer > > > -- > Kristoffer Lundén > ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ✉ [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.gamemaker.nu/ > ☎ 0704 48 98 77 -- Dev Tugnait <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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