other OmniWeb musings

[Richard Gibson]

On Monday, January 22, 2001, at 04:56 PM, Eugene Lee wrote:

>  
> In http://www.macedition.com/cb/cb_20010122.shtml 
> "CodeBitch" says we shouldn't support browsers that don't follow the  
> standards, using OmniWeb as an example. 
>  

FWIW, this article does zero in on my "pet peeve" with OmniWeb.  There are several web pages I regularly visit where the strange combinations of colors for text and background (with Omniweb only) make it almost impossible to read.  I do use it instead of IE because I prefer the general user interface and because it renders text so much more cleanly and legibly - I'd really like to be able to use it regularly!

Another problem I've often seen in beta8 is that Omniweb seems to not know how to stop underlining text.  When it encounters a link that is underlined, the remainder of the text block is underlined as well (e.g., http://developer.apple.com/macosx/). 

When "final" releases come out, if these display problems don't clean up (and rendering speed doesn't jump up a bit), I'll probably end up using something else just so I can reliably read pages.

-rick


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