Speaking pragmatically, does it matter? I think Firefox is pretty good, and I personally use it (with web developer extension) to build stylesheets (I find it really helpful to watch the elements fall into place as I adjust styles in realtime).
That is, for me, the fastest way to get a style that adheres to recommendations and performs okay in Opera, Safari, etc. -- and from there it's on to IE. Whether Firefox is "most accurate" according to recommendations, I don't know. If anyone's got a comparison chart of certain browsers according to spec, that'd be interesting reading, but it doesn't ultimately change that much. When I raised an eyebrow at your "Firefox first, others later" thing, it wasn't so much at that as at the "Firefox is always right" attitude: we mustn't assume that. It's a very solid browser, and it evolves quickly thanks to active community-driven development, but if you look at Bugzilla it's most definitely not flawless. In terms of the "best" browser for W3C recommendation support? Leaning towards saying Opera, just because it does some cool CSS3 stuff others don't... but that's hardly a substantiated opinion. Josh On 10/30/05, Joseph R. B. Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In response to some of the opinions generated by my "Firefox first, > others later" way of testing my pages, it brings up the question of > which browser is closest to rendering my code the way it SHOULD look? I > was under the impression that Firefox was as accurate as available today. > > If gecko is out of date, which is best? > > Joe Taylor > http://sitesbyjoe.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
