Gervase Markham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 21 Oct 2001:
> Colin Thefleau wrote: > >> I do a small test to find out which browser renders better and >> under which environment. This is very simple and only takes care >> of text now. I think the results will also interest the mozilla >> users. Basically eight partial pages are grouped into one picture, >> you have to choose the one you think looks better and vote for it. >> http://134.130.188.109/vote/browsers.html >> This is very simple. > > This is a very unscientific test. Obviously, the browser which > supports anti-aliasing (albeit only on one platform) "looks better" > than those that don't. Other than that, there's not much to choose > between them. > > A far better question to ask is "which renders the page the way the > author intended"? HTML is not a language for specifying > pixel-perfect layout (CSS helps to do this) and so, if things are > not specified, user-agents have a lot of freedom in how the render > things, and one rendering is no more "right" than another. > Therefore asking someone to judge which page "looks better" is > silly - if you say "Hmm, I like the spacing between those two > blocks of text in Browser X", it could be that it's caused by a bug > in Browser X and the other browsers are getting it right. Is > Browser X's rendering still "better"? And: I like that color car. That means that is the right color car. And since a lot of other people like that color car, and you don't, that means you are wrong, and the color of car you picked is wrong. How can you base test on an opinion? -- ICQ: N/A (temporarily) AIM: FlyersR1 9 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ = m
