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By: Conner

Conner — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:18:42 +0000

I’ve also noticed that -webkit-border-radius-topleft/topright does not work. Even when I add the 0px value to both topleft and topright in Chrome, the rounded border still shows on the top left and right. However, in Firefox and Safari it seems to work fine. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Conner

By: David John Mead » Blog Archive » Was Google Chrome released a little too early?

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:40:23 +0000

[...] Some missing CSS3 support [...]

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:11:26 +0000

Just installed Chrome. I like most of it, though it will have an uphill battle getting techno-illiterate users to sign on, due to the very different GUI.

Huge fan of the “sandboxed” tabs. Large fan of the speed.

Small quirks that will hopefully be fixed:
Zoom currently only works on text. I’m a graphic and web designer and I like to be able to pull out and see the whole thing.
(This is sort of an irrational want, but here we go). I’m a big fan of add-ons in Firefox (SteepandCheap.com, Chainlove.com, my RSS aggregate, etc.), so while the purpose of Chrome was to go no bells and whistles, I do sort of miss those.

That’s my initial assessment. I need to do more research into it’s web standards/CSS/compatability/etc.

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 19:01:59 +0000

Gemma,
That’s because you are used to having Windows reduce the thickness of every stroke down to a single pixel. What you see in Safari is actually closer to what the designer of the typeface intended. The upside is that when text IS bold, it is a much more noticeable difference from non-bold.

By: Gemma Weirs

Gemma Weirs — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:38:28 +0000

I don’t like the way Safari renders text at all. For normal weight text, it looks bold in Safari.

I haven’t tried Chrome yet but I have just installed it so I’ll see how it goes.

By: ecards

ecards — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:26:01 +0000

Yes Safari renders BOLD differently than IE – this I could live with.

What is insane is that Chrome does it like IE, not like Safari.

By: film fan

film fan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:11:52 +0000

there are so many advantages and features with Chrome, such as it’s speed, for example; now if only they would take care it’s quirky cookie management…

By: Alison

Alison — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:51:10 +0000

This is totally great. The web development future looks bright. :D

By: Michael "Reinventing the wheel" Howel

Michael "Reinventing the wheel" Howel — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 00:22:34 +0000

Why doesn’t Chrome just use the Win32-based WebKit like everyone else, instead porting WebKit to a Google-specific API? They ought to have known that it would result in bugs, and problems upgrading to a newer WebKit.

By: EGB

EGB — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:08:25 +0000

Beta. Still a long way to go.