A recent survey of browsers reports that Apple says their browser is extermely good.

An independent test, using approximately a half dozen "browser test utilities" found that the Apple browser scored much better than any other browser based on tests using Apple's tester. The big problem was that no other browser would run their test program.

(They didn't score quite as well on any of the other tests.)

Obviously, as they figured out in Atlanta recently, you can raise your test scores quite easily if you can rig the tests.

Much is being made of "compliance with the new HTML5 standard."

The FACT is that there is no HTML5 standard. A "proposed version for reading" was released several years ago. An updated "proposed for reading" version was released two years ago.

Most qualified people involved with the proposed standard predict at least 6 years from now, before an adoption AS A STANDARD will be possible.

Each browser now uses "gimmicks" that were proposed for inclusion by the maker of that browser, and each other maker has submitted other gimmicks for inclusion, but a Standard THERE AIN'T.

(I tried to get a look at the "latest proposed" version, and it had been taken down on the Committee's website - for changes?)

John