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Different browser issues?

  • 29-03-2012 10:08pm
    #1
    Kent Brockman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,282 ✭✭✭


    How come (sometimes) different browsers are better for viewing different web pages?

    Seen a discussion where people were having different issues(eg page not fitting on screen, pages freezing or not loading etc) the solution to the problem was to 'try a different browser'

    Any explanation?


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  • #2
    cookie1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,794 ✭✭✭cookie1977


    It's how the browsers are built that causes the problems/advantages

    Look at this site with each of your browsers to compare
    http://www.html5test.com
    Plugins/add-ons can also affect browser performance too


  • #3
    GarIT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,671 ✭✭✭GarIT


    Kent Brockman wrote: »
    How come (sometimes) different browsers are better for viewing different web pages?

    Seen a discussion where people were having different issues(eg page not fitting on screen, pages freezing or not loading etc) the solution to the problem was to 'try a different browser'

    Any explanation?

    Its very simple, the people who made the site made it in one browser. All browsers interpret websites differently (excluding the ones based on each other) so it won't look the same in every browser. All the browser has is some lines of texts and it makes its own decisions from there.


  • #4
    GreenWolfe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭GreenWolfe


    It's not easy to make a website viewable with total consistency on every browser. Browsers use different rendering engines. There are a number of rendering engines that are behind different browsers:

    (here are just a few, there are more niche browsers)
    • Trident - Internet Explorer
    • Gecko - Firefox, Seamonkey
    • Webkit - Chrome, Safari
    • Presto - Opera
    Naturally, each engine makes its own decisions about how to layout and render different things. This gets worse when each browser has multiple versions and you have to support those too.

    With HTML5 different browsers support different capabilities. So you also have to design your site to degrade gracefully if it doesn't support all the HTML features you want.

    Test all of your devices and browsers (if you can) in the site in post #2, you should see fairly differing results.


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