Avant : Java Glossary

2008-10-18 by Roedy Green ©1996-2009 Canadian Mind Products
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Avant: A lesser known freeware browser. The current version is 1.7 Last revised/verified: 2009-05-19. 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. It also prints very accurate renderings. Most other browsers print a rendering that looks nothing like the screen. Firefox 3.5, Sea Monkey 1.1.17, Safari 4, Flock 2.5, Chrome 2.0.172.33 and Opera 9.64 all have a “bug”. They will not render <col class="xxxx">s correctly. Avant 11.7, IE 8.0.6001.18702 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/verified: 2009-06-30
It uses the built-in Windows renderer that IE uses. That is why it is so compatible with IE. The UI is modeled on Opera.
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