Mac Net Journal: The State of OS X Web Browsers.  [Scripting News]
Sadly this is true, I use Omniweb as my main browser. I love it, but there are still sites that I have to fire up IE to use. The worst part is the push for "standards", where standards mean XHTML and CSS. Ominweb can't display these so called "standard" sites worth the bits they're written in. Sure this is 100% a problem with Ominweb, but standards that aren't widely supported aren't standards at all. It's ironic that every browser I have can display the non "standard" sites just fine, but when it comes to the "standard" sites they almost always look like complete kack.
This is the sad state of standards in the web world. Every browser has some level of difficulty with CSS. So is CSS really a standard if no browser can render it completely right? Personally, I think we had better interoperability before CSS entered the picture. I've been waiting for years to see CSS gain robust support, it still hasn't. Now with Mac OS X we have a new a playing field and a new set of browsers that are jockeying for viability. Competition in the Windows world was wiped out, in Mac OS X it is still very much alive. Unfortunately the complexity in implementing these standards correctly isn't actually helping things. It's a sad state.
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