Re: Difference Epiphaney - MS Explorer

["Rafał Próchniak" <burlap gmail com>]

Hi all,

Just to add to this - bugs in rendering engines are pretty well
documented, it is possible to design a website rendering properly
under IE and Epiphany, but somehow many companies ignore this
possibility.

For a workaround (when some text does not fit in), you can sometimes
try to use different fonts. Default Linux sans-serif fonts are often a
bit wider than Arial (default sans-serif for Windows - both for IE and
Firefox), so layout breaks. In Epiphany, go to
Edit->Preferences->Fonts and styles and try out different fonts for
your language.

Cheers,

Rafał




On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 1:17 PM, Raphael Bosshard
<raphael bosshard gmail com> wrote:
> Hello Mats,
>
> difference between the Rendering of Microsoft Explorer and Epiphany are to
> be expected, since they are using different layout engines. Epiphany uses
> 'Gecko' the layout engine of Mozilla Firefox (although it is planned to
> switch to WebKit, the same engine that powers Apple's Safari web browser and
> Google's Chrome.)
>
> HTML layout engines are the part of a browser that takes care of displaying
> the HTML code of a website. And since not all engines follow all the rules
> the same way, there are difference between the final output of the different
> engines. However; Trident, the layout engine of the Internet Explorer is a
> rather bad example of a layout engine, since it has difficulties with
> Cascading Style Sheets. The Internet Explorer Version 6, for example, uses a
> different CSS box model than the one defined in the standard
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_box_model_bug).
>
> To make a long story short; using the Internet Explorer as a benchmark for
> Epiphany is a very bad idea, since IE is riddled with bugs. Epiphany is in
> no way bug-free, but you might want to try other browsers as well before you
> decide where the error originates. ;)
>
> So long,
> Raphael
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Mats Olofsson
> <mats olofsson mbox321 swipnet se> wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>>
>> I have sometime found som small differences between the way Epiphaney
>> and MS Explorer show html-websites.
>>
>> In general when Epiphaney show these sites where differencesappear, text
>> is often mixed with an other text or there is a line break where it
>> should not bee one.
>>
>> One example is the Swedish website eniro.se. When the "supersök" option
>> is selected, the textbox is moved a line down, and when the option
>> "websök" is selected the text near the option, is mixed whit other text.
>>
>> In MS Explorer these faults does not appear.
>>
>> I have also found differences in other websites and it seems that it in
>> most cases is a line break that make the trubble - i.e. a line break
>> there it should not bee one.
>>
>> Epiphaney is a good browser and this beauty spot perhaps lead to that
>> people choose an other.
>>
>>
>> Yours sincerely,
>>
>> Mats Olofsson
>>
>>
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