Avant : Java Glossary

2008-10-18 by Roedy Green ©1996-2009 Canadian Mind Products
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Avant: A lesser known freeware browser. It is full-featured and fast. I like it because it is unusually quick to start and it renders colgroup classes correctly, something few other browsers do. Firefox 3.0.5, Sea Monkey 1.1.14, Safari 3.2.1, Flock 2.0.3, Chrome 1.0.154.36 and Opera 9.63 all have a “bug”. They will not render <col class="xxxx">s correctly. Avant 11.7, IE 8.0.6001.18241 beta 2 and IE 7.0.6000 render it correctly. The Opera people say this is a feature not a bug. The language lawyers claim the W3 spec says that the browser is supposed to ignore the color attribute from the <col class. Logically, I think the <col styles should apply to the entire column, but not to <th rows. In addition Firefox, Sea Monkey, Safari and flock also ignore the <col align attribute. Opera and IE render it properly. Last revised: 2008-12-23
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