Colin Thefleau wrote: > I do a small test to find out which browser renders better and under which > environment. This is very simple and only takes care of text now. I think > the results will also interest the mozilla users. Basically eight partial > pages are grouped into one picture, you have to choose the one you think > looks better and vote for it. > http://134.130.188.109/vote/browsers.html > This is very simple.
This is a very unscientific test. Obviously, the browser which supports anti-aliasing (albeit only on one platform) "looks better" than those that don't. Other than that, there's not much to choose between them. A far better question to ask is "which renders the page the way the author intended"? HTML is not a language for specifying pixel-perfect layout (CSS helps to do this) and so, if things are not specified, user-agents have a lot of freedom in how the render things, and one rendering is no more "right" than another. Therefore asking someone to judge which page "looks better" is silly - if you say "Hmm, I like the spacing between those two blocks of text in Browser X", it could be that it's caused by a bug in Browser X and the other browsers are getting it right. Is Browser X's rendering still "better"? All of the renderings on that page are perfectly reasonable and readable. Gerv
