Welcome Cairo

Posted by # December 20th 10:09 AM

I just upgraded my browser of choice to the latest nightly build. Camino 1.0.3 has been anything but stable recently so I wondered the latest bugfixes can hardly make it worse. I got the spark from Mr. Hicks who had a comparison between how the new Cairo rendering engine, Safari and the old Camino render light text on a dark background.

Of course, it will come with some other new goodies, too, like (finally) a RSS feed icon in the address bar, nice rounded corners and automatic spell checking in forms.

So far the build of December 19 has been rock-solid (for a whopping hour ;-), so no complaints. And the new text rendering is nice.

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  1. Jussi 12.21.06 / 04AM
    Hmm... I have seen lots of praise of the text rendering but I'm not seeing any real difference apart from some apparent bugs compared to OmniWeb, my browser of choise. Is it just my eyes or should I be comparing to previous Mozilla/Camino/Firefox?
  2. Jarkko 12.21.06 / 19PM
    Jussi, I can't say about OmniWeb but the rendering is considerably better than in older Gecko engines and even better than in Safari, as you can see in Hicks' comparison. But you're right, there are still some bugs in there, especially in form elements. However, I find the browser pretty stable given that it is still at an early Alpha stage.

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