Surfing Safari
Apple’s Safari is out, at least in beta. To the suprise of many, including me, it uses the KHTML rendering engine (the one behind the Konqueror browser) , rather than Gecko (which powers Mozilla, Netscape7, Chimera, Phoenix,…).
It’s a nifty-looking browser, incredibly lightweight (a 3+ MB download), and fast as heck (I thought Chimera and Mach-O Mozilla were fast!).
Unfortunately, the KHTML engine does have a few CSS bugs. Mark Pilgrim has a review and a tracker for these CSS bugs. A couple affect the rendering of this blog, which is why it currently looks like crap in Safari (and, I suppose, Konqueror, too).
Fortunately, Dave Hyatt’s blog gives every indication that the Safari Team are working fast to squash the bugs.
Methinks I hear a crackling sound as the Browser Wars heat up again.
Posted by distler at January 9, 2003 1:28 AM