Carlfish wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2001 03:11:55 GMT, Carlfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> somehow managed to type:
>
>>On Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:23:08 -0400, DeMoN_LaG
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> somehow managed to type:
>>
>>>You must not use Mozilla. It visibly renders the same speed as IE on my
>>>system. Faster on some pages, actually. Usually ones with complex
>>>tables throughout them, and the browser is much more responsive while
>>>doing the rendering
>>>
>>>
>>The numbers disagree, see the remaining posts in this thread.
>>
>
> <rant>
> It may be a few hundred milliseconds slower, but at least Mozilla fucking
> renders things properly.
>
> I redesigned the front-end of my blog today. I figured that I'd test it in
> IE5.5, Mozilla and lynx, and tell everyone else to get stuffed.
> Supposedly, that meant I could remove all the table code from my site, and
> replace it with styled DIV tags.
>
> Aside from one problem that turned out to be me misinterpreting the CSS
> specification[1], Mozilla displayed the resulting page perfectly.
>
> Internet Explorer 5.5, on the other hand:
>
> 1) Didn't understand position: fixed at all.
> 2) Couldn't draw within the lines - text was drawn over the
> borders of the surrounding divs.
> 3) Borders on either side of the div randomly vanish.
>
> Any of these bugs would be a milestone-stopper in Mozilla, but they
> managed to make it to a release version of IE5.5, and look even worse in
> the beta of IE6.
>
> (for some sample IE6 beta screenshots, look at
> http://www.pastiche.org/~cmiller/s1.jpg
> http://www.pastiche.org/~cmiller/s2.jpg )
>
> JTK, I'm going to un-killfile you because I really want to hear an honest
> answer to the following question:
>
> "Is it worth it to gain half a second in page rendering time, or about
> ten dollars worth of memory usage, if your renderer can't reliably draw
> basic things like margins, padding, or borders."
>
> I'm waiting for a justification.
>
> </rant>
>
> Charles Miller
> [1] The relationships of floating blocks to the margins of the blocks
> rendered beside them. IMHO, the standard does it wrong.
>
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