Hi all, Just to add to this - bugs in rendering engines are pretty well documented, it is possible to design a website rendering properly under IE and Epiphany, but somehow many companies ignore this possibility.
For a workaround (when some text does not fit in), you can sometimes try to use different fonts. Default Linux sans-serif fonts are often a bit wider than Arial (default sans-serif for Windows - both for IE and Firefox), so layout breaks. In Epiphany, go to Edit->Preferences->Fonts and styles and try out different fonts for your language. Cheers, Rafał On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Raphael Bosshard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Mats, > > difference between the Rendering of Microsoft Explorer and Epiphany are to > be expected, since they are using different layout engines. Epiphany uses > 'Gecko' the layout engine of Mozilla Firefox (although it is planned to > switch to WebKit, the same engine that powers Apple's Safari web browser and > Google's Chrome.) > > HTML layout engines are the part of a browser that takes care of displaying > the HTML code of a website. And since not all engines follow all the rules > the same way, there are difference between the final output of the different > engines. However; Trident, the layout engine of the Internet Explorer is a > rather bad example of a layout engine, since it has difficulties with > Cascading Style Sheets. The Internet Explorer Version 6, for example, uses a > different CSS box model than the one defined in the standard > (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_box_model_bug). > > To make a long story short; using the Internet Explorer as a benchmark for > Epiphany is a very bad idea, since IE is riddled with bugs. Epiphany is in > no way bug-free, but you might want to try other browsers as well before you > decide where the error originates. ;) > > So long, > Raphael > > > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Mats Olofsson > <[email protected]> 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 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. >> >> >> Yours sincerely, >> >> Mats Olofsson >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> epiphany-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list > > > _______________________________________________ > epiphany-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list > > _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
