The Ninja Space Goat wrote:Everah wrote:Dude, Safari's rendering was the only one I have seen that comes close to what is expected (actually, it looked dead on).
ah ah ah! Opera my man!
Yep, Opera and Safari have been about the only two browsers that have really been able to pass the Acid 2 test.
Safari is fast and about as fast as Opera when it comes to page rendering. Firefox has always been dead last when it comes to rendering speed. Especially when javascript is being used.

Never understood why people would want to use a browser as slow as Firefox but then again coming from IE anything would be better.
Safari still has some problems with Flash. There are some sites where things are just completely missing from the flash content.
The other thing that annoyed the hell out of me is the Apple way of dropdown menus. You have to CLICK on the highlighted menu item for the drop down to appear. That annoys me no end after being used to dropdowns appearing as soon as your mouse hovers over the menu selection.
About the only thing that I drool over in Safari is their font smoothing. Man it is absolutely GORGEOUS! The fonts look so clear and clean. There is no comparison to Windows ClearType font smoothing. Windows ClearType is just plain gawd-awful ugly in comparison. I wish there was a way to install a module from Apple that would add the Apple font smoothing to the Windows XP font smoothing selection in the Display Properties.
Just the fact that web pages look so damned GOOD because of the font smoothing is almost, I said ALMOST, enough to make me switch from Opera.

But the menu selection thing and how they don't include a bookmark import for Opera among a few other niggling problems will keep me from making the switch.
But damn their font smoothing can make sites look so much better.