Posted by Toby Inkster on 11/09/16 11:28

Andy Dingley wrote:

> Mac IE is one of the least reliable browsers around for rendering CSS.
> It's completely obsolete and no-one should still bother using it.

When it first came out, it was the most standards-compliant CSS engine on
the block; it was the first mainstream browser to support alpha-blended
PNGs (but not on background images for some reason).

There are one or two fairly major bugs, but they're usually fairly trivial
to work around once you've spotted them.

Most solidly written CSS-based designs shouldn't cause too much trouble
with Mac IE. Unless you're doing something odd, a site that works in the
other main CSS rendering engines[1] is likely to work in Mac IE.

iCab is similar in that respect. It's CSS support is incredibly impressive
for such a non-mainstream rendering engine. Most sites that work in the
main rendering engines will not cause problems for iCab.

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1. I class the five "main CSS rendering engines" as:

* Trident (aka MSHTML) - used in IE Win and various spin-offs.

* Gecko (aka NGLayout) - used in Mozilla, Firefox, Camino,
Epihpany and their bretheren.

* Presto - used in Opera 7+.

* KHTML/WebCore - used in Konqueror, Safari, Omniweb and a few
Mac OS X browsers of which noone's ever heard.

* Tasman - used in Mac IE 5+.

However, Tasman is rapidly moving out of the "main CSS rendering engine"
category, into the "obsolete CSS rendering engine" category, where it can
join Opera 3.6-6.1 and Netscape 4.x.

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