Omniweb!
It renders every page I actually use perfectly, has the best UI/prefs/attention to details, and starts up quicker than gecko based browsers. When 5 comes out it'll have the standards compliance and speed of moz/chimera, the startup time of OW4.1/IE, the appearance and usability of OW4.1, and tabs. This assumes that Omnigroup does it right, but given their previous products I have a good deal of confidence that they will. Here's why I think it's going to be so great:
Speed: Gecko shouldn't be faster than a native browser. The fact that it is shows that native browsers (all of them) have crappy rendering. Something designed for complete cross-platform compatibility and modularity shouldn't be fast. When Omnigroup rewrites the OW renderer so that it uses specialized classes instead of misusing Cocoa ones it should be *very* fast (if, of course, they do it right).
Standards: They're rewriting the whole rendering engine with the goals of speed and standards compliance. If they take the time to do it right (which it sounds like they are, release date is in 2003) nothing is stopping them from making it as compliant as Mozilla.
Startup time: it's already good, the changes they're making should only make it smaller since the new classes are more specialized then the old.
Usability: It already rocks, I don't think they'll break it (especially since they aren't focusing on changing that part of it).
Tabs: They've already said they'll put them in, just not exactly how. They don't really like the current form (Moz, Chimera, NS7, Opera, etc...).
OW4.1 has about as many ups and downs as the rest of the browsers out their, as far as I can tell, OW 5 is going to fix ALL of OW's current downs.
It renders every page I actually use perfectly, has the best UI/prefs/attention to details, and starts up quicker than gecko based browsers. When 5 comes out it'll have the standards compliance and speed of moz/chimera, the startup time of OW4.1/IE, the appearance and usability of OW4.1, and tabs. This assumes that Omnigroup does it right, but given their previous products I have a good deal of confidence that they will. Here's why I think it's going to be so great:
Speed: Gecko shouldn't be faster than a native browser. The fact that it is shows that native browsers (all of them) have crappy rendering. Something designed for complete cross-platform compatibility and modularity shouldn't be fast. When Omnigroup rewrites the OW renderer so that it uses specialized classes instead of misusing Cocoa ones it should be *very* fast (if, of course, they do it right).
Standards: They're rewriting the whole rendering engine with the goals of speed and standards compliance. If they take the time to do it right (which it sounds like they are, release date is in 2003) nothing is stopping them from making it as compliant as Mozilla.
Startup time: it's already good, the changes they're making should only make it smaller since the new classes are more specialized then the old.
Usability: It already rocks, I don't think they'll break it (especially since they aren't focusing on changing that part of it).
Tabs: They've already said they'll put them in, just not exactly how. They don't really like the current form (Moz, Chimera, NS7, Opera, etc...).
OW4.1 has about as many ups and downs as the rest of the browsers out their, as far as I can tell, OW 5 is going to fix ALL of OW's current downs.
