non-gecko-based browser ??? Are there any for FC1 ????

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:

> Hello. I primarily use firefox and mozilla as my browser(s) of choice.
> But when I took an html class last year I learned that many web pages
> use browser specific features. And that other browsers may not render
> them properly. So I was taught that it was a good idea to keep more
> than one browser around in case you wanted to use a page that wasn't
> compatible with your favorite, (and to view any page I might make with
> as many "DIFFERENT" browsers as possible before deciding they worked
> properly.) 
> 
> Well I recently found a product I wanted to order on-line. But neither
> Firefox, nor it's cousin Mozilla was able to actually add the product to
> the "shopping cart" This got me looking at browsers again. But everything
>  I got on this fc1 (including konqueror) seams to be based on mozilla.
> 
> I'm looking for something else. Not for regular use, but so that when I
> send a request to some webmaster to make his/her page more compatible
> with my software, I want to be able to show that I tried more than one
> kind of browser before I decided it was the website, rather than my
> chosen software that's at fault. But I simply won't boot windows to test 
> it with IE (Generaly I disable the cable modem before I boot windows 
> one any of the rare occasions that I even go there any more.)
> 
> Are there any functional browsers for fc1 that don't use mozilla's
> rendering engine? (preferably one that can render pages written for IE)
> 

opera
 
> 

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