This may seen OT, but the underlying question is valid :~)
:-) Good one.
As I am an Opera fan, Opera is of course the best browser on earth (although I have to admit that Firefox 0.8 has some *very neat* features). I am a mathematical maniac, so I design my sites computing the widths, paddings and margins in my head, according to the CSS-boxmodel, that is. The result I get looks good (aside from my head) in Opera and Gecko-based Mozilla-browsers. I asume that KHTML-Browsers like Konqueror and Safari get it right, too. That's what standards are for.
1. [which way around?]
The internal preview of my editor uses IE as well, but I check in Opera very often. As the design is completed, I check again in IE and fix there (...).
2. Is Mozilla more standards-complaint than the rest, or should I rely on Opera first?
Well, Mozilla and Opera are both great at standards. But which standard do you mean, exactly? In the case of CSS, I think that Opera is a bit more standards-compliant. This *opinion* is based upon the fact that the Opera guys are amongst the people who actually make the CSS-standard. In my spare-time in the office (I know, sounds funny), I use Opera 3.62 on a Win3.11 machine (I know, sounds sad) to check what I did. Almost all of CSS-1 is covered by this browser! And to say something about CSS-3: Opera is the only browser I know, which supports { box-sizing:[...] } as the standards say (Moz does too, but only via an inofficial property).
To sum this up: Opera is the best when it comes to CSS-compliance BUT: I don't think that a list is really helpful. Mozilla, Safari and my favourite are all as standard-compliant as needed. Why use a list? I could have also said: Russ is right, although workarounds should only be used if you know what you're doing...
Regards!
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Matthias <http://www.kronn.de>
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