Re: [TCLUG:9906] Browser-independent code

[Scott Dier - dieman <dieman@ringworld.org>]

On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, Christopher Palmer wrote:

> > Really we need CSS compatible browsers *NOW*.  Netscape is not this.
> > Opera promises to be, mozilla is but isn't finished yet either.  Hopefully
> > full CSS spec will be supported in a unix environment soon.
> 
> I hate MS software as much as the next guy, because I think it's generally
> bad stuff. BUT, MS IE 5 supports CSS the best of anyone, it's fast, and
> nice to use. I'm happy to give them full credit for that.

Actually, microsoft gets one CSS tag wrong where mozilla does get it
right.

The "font-variant: small-caps;" attribute is rendered as all caps in ie,
whereas you get the correct caps effect in mozilla.

Mozilla has great CSS parsing, but its slow as heck right now :(

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