VersionTracker: OmniWeb 4.1 beta 6. It’s CSS support is greatly improved (screenshot of diveintomark in Omniweb, 141 KB). Bugs visible in that screenshot:
- “Jeff Adkins” is supposed to have a dotted underline below it.
- Not visible, but hovering the cursor over “Jeff Adkins” should give more information about the citation; specifically, it should display the contents of the title attribute of the cite tag. (I do the same thing for abbreviations and acronyms.) None of this works.
- The letters for the days of the week in the calendar are supposed to be hidden.
- The table caption should be at the top of the table. Actually, this is not technically required in any HTML specification I can find, but every other browser works this way, and I don’t see a good reason to do it differently.
- The quotations are surrounded by quote marks, which is correct, but the quote marks are not curly, which is wrong.
- The quotations are italicized, indicating that OmniWeb shares Internet Explorer’s CSS parsing bug.
- Not visible, but the drop-down style switcher doesn’t work. It works in every other Javascript-enabled browser on every platform. Oddly, the link-based method that uses redirects works fine (Traditional layout, default layout), which allows me to see how badly OmniWeb still munges some of the more advanced layouts.
Still, this is a vast improvement from version 4.0.x, which munged any CSS-based positioning horribly (this site was unreadable) and offered no way for web developers to hide their CSS declarations from OmniWeb’s buggy renderer.
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