RE: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they?

and Safari render the same...or do they? Hi all, thanks for your suggestions. I'm attaching a side-by-side comparison of a snippet of the page since I cannot put any code live, hoping the attachment gets delivered. Safari is on the left, Chrome on the right. If you cannot see the attac

RE: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they?

Hi all, thanks for your suggestions. I'm attaching a side-by-side comparison of a snippet of the page since I cannot put any code live, hoping the attachment gets delivered. Safari is on the left, Chrome on the right. If you cannot see the attachment, it shows how the graphical background element

Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they?

On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 16:36:45 +1100, Jens-Uwe Korff wrote: > Hi experts, > > I'm running into big rendering differences between Google Chrome and Safari > 3.1/PC. > They are said to render pages the same, given that they're using the same > Webkit engine. > > The differences seem to be mainly due t

Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they?

>> From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On >> Behalf Of Johan Douma >> Sent: 08 January 2009 11:22 >> To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org >> Subject: Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they? >> >> Just thou

Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they?

Mike > > -- > *From:* li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] *On > Behalf Of *Johan Douma > *Sent:* 08 January 2009 11:22 > *To:* wsg@webstandardsgroup.org > *Subject:* Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do the

RE: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they?

...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Johan Douma Sent: 08 January 2009 11:22 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they? Just though I'd let you know about this, I actually think this is a pretty serious problem, because it breaks a lot of sc

Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they?

Just though I'd let you know about this, I actually think this is a pretty serious problem, because it breaks a lot of scripts and doesn't conform with the other browsers even though it conforms to the javascript spec. V8 (chrome's js engine) can take the values in an array in a random order. If

Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they?

Hi everybody, Even though Chrome is based on Webkit, Chrome actually uses another graphics/rendering engine (the drawing layer) called Skia (source code: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/skia/). A bit like the javascript engines, Google didn't use webkits' javascript engine (Sqirrel

Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they?

I think this comes down more to which font rasterisation engine a system is using. I don’t think Safari on Windows for example has full access to AAT and Quartz and thus will render type using ClearType and GDI on Windows. Add Firefox into the mix which uses Cairo and you’ll get different r

Re: [WSG] Chrome and Safari render the same...or do they?

Jens-Uwe Korff wrote: I'm running into big rendering differences between Google Chrome and Safari 3.1/PC. They are said to render pages the same, given that they're using the same Webkit engine. They're using the WebKit engine, not necessarily the same version. Safari is at version 3.2.1 last