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Lew · 23-07-2003, 12:55

Camino is quite a nice browser as long as you don't mind the Mozilla engine. It has a few quirks such as using a lot of Mozilla's own text fields instead of the OS' built-in ones, which can cause text to 'lag' behind your typing.

Safari is a much leaner rendering engine, being based on KDE's KHTML (as found in Konqueror). It still has a few deficiencies such as problems with certain CSS sites. With MS' withdrawal from the Mac browser market they're supposed to be helping Apple increase compatibilty with IE-only sites (plus, hopefully the browser plugin component of the forthcoming WMP9 for Mac will actually be a standard plug-in as opposed to the IE-only plugin of the current version).

Personally I'm using OmniWeb 4.5 Beta 3, which uses Safri's WebCore framework but has a much better UI and some very intelligent ad-blocking.

23-07-2003, 12:55	#4
Lew Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Fleet, Hampshire Age: 54 Services: VIP50, TiVo Posts: 2,869	Camino is quite a nice browser as long as you don't mind the Mozilla engine. It has a few quirks such as using a lot of Mozilla's own text fields instead of the OS' built-in ones, which can cause text to 'lag' behind your typing. Safari is a much leaner rendering engine, being based on KDE's KHTML (as found in Konqueror). It still has a few deficiencies such as problems with certain CSS sites. With MS' withdrawal from the Mac browser market they're supposed to be helping Apple increase compatibilty with IE-only sites (plus, hopefully the browser plugin component of the forthcoming WMP9 for Mac will actually be a standard plug-in as opposed to the IE-only plugin of the current version). Personally I'm using OmniWeb 4.5 Beta 3, which uses Safri's WebCore framework but has a much better UI and some very intelligent ad-blocking.