Safari Does CSS Better Than Chrome?
When Chrome came out one of the first things kurafire did was to test his own website, which uses a bunch of CSS transitions and CSS3 properties. Since it uses the Webkit rendering engine it should be at par with Safari, right?
Wrong. Apparently Chrome uses a lower end graphics engine called Skia, which produces less than satisfactory results, as can be seen in this demo page. Among the missing features are shadows and anti-aliasing, which makes Safari the better browser for CSS handling.
Note that this may be intentional though. Google released Chrome with speed in mind, and this may be one of those trade offs that they had to make.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Yeah, looks like Chrome is not so good as everybody tought at the first time. I am not ready to choose faster browser and get worse design with antialising.
September 15th, 2008 at 3:37 am
No doubt that is pretty ugly! Let’s see if this is addressed on their first update.
October 6th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
it’s funny, the more i use Chrome (for windows), the more unstable it seems to get… crashes a lot more, can’t handle sites with flash, hangs every time i close a tab… all that to say, i’m switching back to Firefox
November 20th, 2008 at 10:43 am
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