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Jessica’s Blog » Blog Archive » Firefox 2 Beta 1: Live Today — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:15:40 +0000

[...] Firefox 2 Beta 1: Live Today [...]

By: Kieran

Kieran — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 23:46:10 +0000

Good question Gary.

For those of you who don’t know, the web standards organization (www.webstandards.org) has an acid 2 test that grades a browser’s ability to render the most complicated CSS code.

To answer your question Gary, it does not pass the Acid 2 test.

The test will remain extremely difficult (if not impossible) for Firefox to pass until they upgrade or move beyond the Gecko engine. It’s easier to introduce a form spell checker…

I didn’t download Explorer 7.0, but I’m sincerely doubting it can render the drawing. The Trident engine is absolutely appalling.

Kieran

By: Gary

Gary — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 21:57:08 +0000

But does it pass the Acid test?

By: Christoph Schiessl

Christoph Schiessl — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:20:18 +0000

… the page rendering in the new version is much faster now (Mac OS Tiger). You notice while scrolling down a page!

Are already using Cairo (http://cairographics.org/) for rendering??

By: Ivan

Ivan — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:59:08 +0000

I really like it, great list of new features I’ll wait for the final version

By: iMod » Firefox 2 Beta 1 Released!

iMod » Firefox 2 Beta 1 Released! — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 06:05:46 +0000

[...] As anxious as we all may be for Firefox 2, we still have to wait for the final version, but in the mean time we can settle for what we have and that is Beta 1. Yes, not only but a few days ago Firefox 2 Beta 1 was released. Here are some major changes in the new development: [...]

By: lectrice

lectrice — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 20:48:08 +0000

“(writing on it right now actually). The spell checking is convieniant”

– but maybe not terribly effective? Sorry, couldn’t resist.

By: Jonathan Snook

Jonathan Snook — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:13:04 +0000

Jeff: Yes, URL’s can actually have @ symbols in them. Here’s an example for providing some basic authentication credentials:

http://username:password@example.com/

By: Jeff Scism

Jeff Scism — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 12:29:33 +0000

I would like to “find” someplace where I can suggest that the Standards for rendering URL execution in the Browser treats all URLs that contain an @ symbol as a Email link, vs. a URL.

I am constantly running across misformed email links which leave out the “mailto: portion, and get rendered as URLs.

Logic tells me that if a URL ‘reads’ with the @ symbol in it, that there should be a way to trigger it as a email link vs. a URL website address? By default in the browser programming?

(It would default and detect when the”mailto:” portion of the link is left out if the @ symbol is present.)

This of course assumes the the @ symbol is not used in any actual URL address anywhere

By: Steve Tucker

Steve Tucker — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:46:39 +0000

Support for Javascript 1.7 should definitely be interesting. I was also rather impressed with the form spellchecking feature – nice touch of innovation!