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Makosuke

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Yeah, sorry about the title, but I'm really wondering, and I didn't find any posts mentioning it in a search here.

I was browser-testing a site layout I'm working on, and I figured I'd give it a look in iCab. In the past I've always used a simple little trick to just hide all the layout from it and give it a bland page since it did horrible things with anything fancy... so I was shocked to find that not only was 3.0.3 Universal, but it rendered everything perfectly!

I don't remember hearing anything about them switching to Webkit/KHTML/Gecko for the core or anything, and their release notes and site didn't talk about any of the above, so what gives? When did it suddenly develop really good CSS support? HOW?! Is it still using its own proprietary layout engine?

I still wouldn't use it personally, but if it does that well on pre-OSX machines, it would be AWESOME to know, since up to now the Mozilla 1.21 build was the only decent browser available, and it was seriously bloated for most computers old enough to need it.
 
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