Posted by Andy Dingley on 04/28/06 12:35

Bruce Grubb wrote:

> Carefull as the last version of IE for the Mac had pretty good CSS
> rendering.

Like hell it did. It attempted better rendering than other "v5"
generation browsers did at the time. That was a _long_ time ago though,
and everything else (even IE) has caught up since.

It was also buggy as anything, particularly around CSS. You _could_
make it work, but there were no end of gotchas were it would render one
valid example perfectly but fail (and badly) on another perfectly valid
example, just because of a permissable variation in the inclusion of
whitespace.

This was a browser that was capable, but it certainly wasn't robust (or
fit for use as a general web-browsing tool - far too many sites killed
it dead).

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