Thought Garage

When it comes to rendering, the world’s fastest browser, my favorite Google Chrome still has some rough edges. I mean, really some rough edges. It has trouble rendering rounded corners on WordPress login page. See how a WordPress login page is rendered on different browsers. I am on Microsoft Vista. Google Chrome : Not happy with round edges and shadow Issues: Round corners are not transparent enough and shows thick black edges. And somehow shows a much wider shadow (compared to Apple Safari) Apple Safari : The Best Finest and quite crisp when it comes to rendering content. See how the it stands out from the page and just enough shadow. Firefox : Just Fine Renders round edges fine but completely misses out on the shadows. So the form looks more like embedded in to the page rather than standing out floated (like in Apple Safari) Internet Explorer 7 : Completely ignores round edges, but better than Google Chrome IE completely ignored round edges and has the same...

In the past I used Internet Explorer for most of my browsing. Then came along Firefox, the open source browser with 100s of cool extensions. I immediately switched to Firefox and never looked back. Well, for some time. A few months back, I have replaced Firefox with the world's fastest browser, Google Chrome. Google chrome even without extensions made browsing lot cooler and quicker. Recently, I downloaded Apple Safari and I immediately fell in love with the way it renders content. Crisp and so easy on your eyes to read. So, these days, I am spending more time on Safari to read content while still using Chrome for general browsing. One more feather in the cap for Apple Safari. It renders content in Telugu quite beautifully and it is much more easily readable than other browsers. Google Chrome comes last in rendering Telugu content. Here are some snapshots of Yes To Politics , taken in different browsers. You can see the much crisper image in Apple safari. Internet Explorer ...

As per the latest stats Firefox has a significant market share of 35.6%. And still, I see web pages that say, switch to IE for better results. I was tempted to think that the application will work fine in Firefox. I may switch only  if  I want the page to look better. Nope. The message is typical marketing spin on saying that we don't support any other browser than IE. The app won't work on Firefox. The app hung up in that page after entering the details. The same page works fine in IE though. The very moment, I thought I never have to go back to IE, I find a web site like this. The story goes on.