OmniWeb
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On the subject of browsers, I noticed the other day that OmniWeb was not able to catch the stylesheets for Antipixel, resulting in a display which looked like crap. Downloading the latest version now to try to figure it out.
If you’re using OmniWeb and seeing poorly formatted crap (as opposed to well-formatted crap), well… you’re probably long gone. But if you’ve stuck around, I’m working on it.
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Posted to Computers • 2001.12.08 (Sat) • 23:21
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Posted by M Sinclair Stevens 2001.12.09, 11:55
Since I got my new PowerBookG4 last August, I run OSX exclusively and love OmniWeb. However, neither OmniWeb 4.0 nor the soon-to-be released OmniWeb 4.1 support CSS very well. (They promise full support for both CSS-1 and CSS-2 in 5.0—maybe 6 months down the road. FYI, the only do positioning if it is absolute and they can do div with background colors to look like blocks, but they can’t render borders at all. I haven’t done any testing on the span element, but I notice the MT templates use it a lot.) I notice that you are W3C standards conscious and I also try to be. Even so, I feel reduced to a very narrow set of things that work consistently well across Browsers (and I don’t even try to address the problems with old Browsers).
When I got interested in Movable Type last week, I noticed immediately that OmniWeb didn’t render the templates well. So whenever I want to weblog, I grit my teeth and use IE.
PS. Thanks for your concern in replying to my last post about the possibility of my email address getting spammed. I’ll continue to include it because I think it is courteous to let people contact me if I post to their weblog, and my URL site is not up yet…but you can edit it out if you think it is safer.
Posted by jh 2001.12.09, 23:46
But… but… I thought OmniWeb was supposed to be a super-sleek modern browser? Daniel from waferbaby.com wrote to me and confirmed what you say about its CSS support. Well, at least I know I’m not going mad. I am determined to let standards by my guide, however, so OmniWeb users will just have to hope for better compliance. Hope this doesn’t sound snooty, but the main purpose of this site is just to let me play around with stuff like CSS - and if I can’t play I’m taking my ball and going home!
Posted by M Sinclair Stevens 2001.12.11, 11:51
Going mad….I often feel that way. I’m pretty new to html/css/JavaScript and every time I try something new, it works only half the time. At first I thought it was just me, but I’ve discovered that many times it’s the Browser.
OmniWeb is a beautiful browser. I think it renders photos and colors much better than IE. It’s just that they’re still working on the CSS stuff.
I find their mailing list to be very helpful, and I especially like that I can download the latest build of the pre-release product (sneakypeeks) and provide feedback.
http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omniweb/omniweb-l/
I can understand your frustration making you want to take your ball and go home. Alternatively, you could stick around and help us level the playing field. I think that OW5.0 will be awesome.
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