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Shibboleth, Sibboleth, ear of corn; stream or flood

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reg at inquit.com <reg at inquit.com> wrote:

> I bought a copy of OW recently because it's so pretty. But I'm really
> pleasantly surprised to see that OW 41.41 even comes close to correctly
> rendering the pages at http://www.projectseven.com.
> 
> I regard this site as the browser shibboleth: whether you like their
> design or not, they cut the tightest, most gracefully degrading
> cross-browser DHTML (javascript+XHTML... whatever).
> 
> Opera - which I'm guessing is the closest OW competitor - does somewhat
> better than OW41.41. When OW can make it here (soon, I hope), then it
> should change its badge from 'not too shabby' to something that's a bit
> more boastful.
> 
> BTW, I don't really know how to spell shibboleth (I can, of course,
> pronounce it). But a guess was good enough for Anton Leuski's wonderful
> cocaAspell. Its fast and clever and free at:
> http://homepage.mac.com/leuski/cocoaspell/ (system services are the
> bonus that makes cocoa apps like OW invaluable).