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Camino browser reaches its end

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Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by iSnow »

dietrichepp wrote: post #23
GigabyteCoin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IE for Mac? That has to be an oxy moron of some sort.

For a surprisingly long window of time, IE Mac was the best browser around. Apparently, it did not share a code base with Windows IE, which explains why IE Mac had all the features people were drooling over in 2001 like full PNG transparency and good CSS support. PNG support even included color correction, and IE Mac did not suffer from the "box model" bug that affected IE on Windows. I think the Mac version of IE ha…

Unfortunately it had the most annoying bug in that it did not reload CSS files. Back in the day, I developed with a text editor on mac PowerBook and after changing one CSS statement, I had to close the browser and restart it.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

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Post by wwweston »

dietrichepp wrote: post #23
GigabyteCoin wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IE for Mac? That has to be an oxy moron of some sort.

For a surprisingly long window of time, IE Mac was the best browser around. Apparently, it did not share a code base with Windows IE, which explains why IE Mac had all the features people were drooling over in 2001 like full PNG transparency and good CSS support. PNG support even included color correction, and IE Mac did not suffer from the "box model" bug that affected IE on Windows. I think the Mac version of IE ha…

> and IE Mac did not suffer from the "box model" bug that affected IE on Windows.

Nope. Just the box model bug that affected all the CSS 2 compliant browsers. ;)

It was indeed a pretty good browser for its time, though.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

#56

Post by adventureloop »

pilif wrote: post #35
eightyone wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I want to like Firefox, I really do, but the experience on OS X is awful. It doesn't fit well with the aesthetic of a native Mac app, and certainty doesn't' function like one. Multi-gestures in Safari are so much smoother. About a month or so back when the Firefox team was soliciting feedback for something here on HN, one of the designers or developers at Mozilla had screenshots of a version of Firefox that looked re…

The one thing that drives me mad about Firefox on the Mac is it's Home/End behavior. Ever since migrating to the Mac, I have remapped the keys to work like on windows and Linux (operating on the current line instead of the current document). You can do that using a custom key binding in ~/Library/KeyBindings. Firefox ignores this and still insists on home/end working on the full document. But even worse: in the new G…

CMD-Arrow (left,right,up,down) will move you to the beginning of the line, end of line, start of document,end of document respectively. I really miss these keys when I am on windows as I find it much less of a hand movement to do.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

#58

Post by masklinn »

fleitz wrote: post #3

I loved Camino back in the 10.1 / 10.2 days. It was truly epic , and so much better than the god awful IE for Mac.

I still love it. To this day it remains my primary browser, through its aged rendering, through its lockups on JS-heavy sites, through its dated icons, through everything. Because the UI of every other browser just feels wrong. Aside from Safari maybe, but Safari's tab bar makes it impossible to handle 50+ tabs.

Re: Camino browser reaches its end

#59

Post by masklinn »

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #14

Unfortunately/fortunately with browsers becoming more of an OS replacement, it makes it rather hard if not impossible for small teams to maintain them.

Aside from that, Mozilla backed out Gecko embedding a long time ago, which is why Camino still operates with a Firefox 3.6 Gecko. That makes maintainership futile when the browser can only fall further and further behind on its ability to simply render websites.
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