Question on rendering difference checkers

[TracyL]

Afternoon all,

We have been looking at "rendering difference checkers"... does it make a difference which browser I use, or does the IE rendering engine identify differences sufficiently well?

Thanks

TracyL

[eValid]

Afternoon all,

We have been looking at "rendering difference checkers"... does it make a difference which browser I use, or does the IE rendering engine identify differences sufficiently well?

Thanks

TracyL

Hey TracyL. Nice to see you a new poster to the eValid forum.

The short answer is, well enough for all practical purposes.

The IE rendering engine is, indeed, different from that in Chrome or Opera or FireFox. All of these have slight variations in how they display HTML objects on the screen.

However, the IE rendering engine is basically the "goldstandard" in this sense: a very high percentage of HTML constructions in the field render on ALL rendering engines the same way they render in IE. Try 99.99% or maybe even 99.999%.

Nobody's done the math on this.

Here's the deal: If your programmers build the website so that it relies on some quirk of browser X -- so that the site won't work on browser Y -- what good is that?

As a result, most well-done websites work on any and all of the browsers almost identically.

Hope that answers your question.

-eValid Support