Chimera vs. OmniWeb
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Chimera is a stand-alone Cocoa browser, is “aimed at delivering a best-of-breed browser on the OS X platform.” It runs rings around the recently-released OmniWeb 4.1b6, especially in the style sheet department.
I’ve griped about OmniWeb before and was really hoping that things would be better as it progressed towards 4.1. The latest beta still doesn’t render the borders around elements and its font sizing is indiosyncratic, to put it nicely.
Chimera, on the other hand, does a remarkable job considering it’s basically in alpha release at the moment. Being Cocoa-based, it tries to do the bells-and-whistles thing with anti-aliased text, which I’m not a big fan of (and anyway, this is supposed to be a feature), and form elements such as pull-downs and submit buttons are rendered using standard OS X widgets despite the stylesheet specifying otherwise. But other than these minor points, Chimera shows an awful lot of promise for a youngster.
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Posted to Computers • 2002.05.09 (Thu) • 16:19
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Posted by smoothj 2002.05.09, 22:17
I like chimera, the anti-aliased text doesn’t bother me. But I really like the tabbed windows. Once they get the css down pat, I’m all over it. Oh yeah, Mozilla ain’t half bad either.
Posted by James 2002.05.11, 10:30
Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Chimera based on the mozialla rendering engine? This would account for the rapid advancement in CSS support.
Posted by jh 2002.05.15, 22:40
Tabbed windows: brilliant. Feels like they should have been invented years ago. A big part of the reason why Moz is now my default browser.
James, yes, you’re perfectly right. Guess I was just a bit stunned to see an app that doesn’t even have its preference panes done yet beat the pants off OmniWeb in this respect.
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