Definitive Best Browser Engine

[OPaul]

Shouldn't the title of this be "Definitive Best Web Page Rendering Agent"?

[aam]

I use Firefox everyday, but I still think that Internet Explorer is a much better browser.

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I agree with you on that one.. to many glitches in FireFox

[Lee]

Mozilla Firefox. ;)

[nzbm]

The Mozilla (Gecko) engine is my favourite.

[Julius Caro]

For me, Gecko without a doubt. !

[xxdesmus]

Gecko...not even a question. IE sucks at standards :blink:

[el22]

I use IE (Avant), and I would choose that (Avant) over Firefox any day, but the engine is clearly much worse than Gecko and Opera (never used KHTML). Gecko's the best IMHO.

[Raum]

God I hate Gecko. I hate the way it loads pages. I will never, ever like the current method of loading pages more than IE's way. IE just gets the page and loads pictures...whereas Firefox gets some text, pushes it far to the right, pushes **** down, moves stuff back over to the left, has glitches all over it for 10 seconds, then corrects itself. I ****ing hat eit with a passion.

[Julius Caro]

Yes, sometimes Gecko does that kind of things. But that doesnt mean it's slower than IE engine. (IMO, I think is faster than IE's engine in most of cases).

But something in Gecko annoys me:

If in an img tag width and height values are given, IE whill show an space with that values while the image is loading. I dont think Gecko does this. For example, if the image is in a cell with no 'absolute' size values, in Gecko that cell will get 'bigger' when the image loads. In IE not.

IE engine may have had a great standars support in the past (comparing to netscape at that same time). But now it's proven that IE standard compliance is not as good as other browsers. (For example, in IE, the css for div:hover won't work, so you have to play with anchors to do what you want. Opera and Gecko will show it the right way).

As a web developer, I think IE's engine is not that good anymore. It hasn't been trully updated since 1998!

[jymi]

gecko for me, personally i dont know if there is a difference in speed but i just prefer firefox over any ie

[Rablet]

Gecko!

[..::. P X .::..]

IE got my vote because it hasnt let me down yet.

[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

aww damn.. i've already voted :(

[SAMSNEED]

IE only because it's widely used and compatible across the web. Well actually I use Maxthon (based on IE) :yes:

[todd]

I like the gecko engine, but none of the browsers that utilize it :/

[nzbm]

Maybe you could make a browser implementing the Gecko engine. I am serious Todd, you could if you collaborated with others.

[xxpor]

I like the gecko engine, but none of the browsers that utilize it :/

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My thoughts exactly. once maxathon is done with the gecko engine, it will own all

[Crunch]

terrible topic but IE 100%

[3N1GM4]

I use Maxthon and love it. I get pretty much all the fetaures I would use in FF over IE (tabs, mouse gestures etc), but I keep the IE interface. I hate how it's so "uncool" to like IE right now. It's a good browser, get over it. I've never had any spy/adware problems with it in the last 7-8 years, I just run Adaware/SpyBot/AVG often, like everyone should...

Anyway, Maxthon gets my vote.

Peace.

[idoia]

camino!

[sdb815]

I really like KHTML for it's speed but Gecko for it's "completeness." So I don't know which to vote for. :pinch:

[altezza Veteran]

Mozilla Firefox.

[Elliott]

How Internet Explorer's engine got more votes than KHTML is beyond me, but that's completely wrong. Safari is a great example of how KHTML works, and it works extremely well. I even prefer KHTML or WebCore (Safari's version of KHTML) to Gecko. KHTML is standards compliant, fast, and it doesn't have many security holes. Can't say the same about Internet Explorer.

[MrA]

Opera. However, I have used a browser from each rendering engine. I'd put them in this order:

Opera

Gecko

KHTML

IE

[temple_treefrog]

I chose Internet Explorer, although I'd prefer GECKO.

The only reason why I chose MSIE was because of its portability. GECKO can't be used externally, and even if it's possible MSIE is so much easier to deploy than GECKO.

I would of chose GECKO because it's:

- Open source based,

- Very fast at rendering pages,

- Complient to W3C Standards (although standards complience isn't absolutely necessary to me), and

- cross compatibility with other operating systems.