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http://www.macosnews.info/ is reporting that Chimera has changed its name.
1. Apple's browser is younger, much younger, and as such you can compare it to how Camino (then Chimera) was when it was this young. Safari is coming along very well, and faster than Camino did (for obvious reasons of funding for development and such). The Camino engine is Gecko, which is also used by Mozilla and Netscape. At this point, Camino is simply the best implementation of this engine; however, had Apple used the same engine, there is no guarantee they would have been able to have the same advantages. Safari could have been more like Netscape, or worse. Apple decided to bring something fresh to the platform, and I welcome it. I use different browsers for different things, and that works for me: I like having 4 different rendering engines on one computer (Safari, Internet Explorer, Camino, OmniWeb). And it is better for website designers this way, so they can test their websites using different rendering engines that are cross-platform without using another computer (or VPC). I would hope that Camino loads pages properly by now, it's been developed long enough. Safari will be great when it becomes finalized, and sites that don't seem to work right on it will simply be the ones coded for a specific browser.Originally posted by cellfish
In something not too unrelated, I'm using the first build of Camino (actually called Camino) and I have to say that it is AWESOME. I find it much faster than Safari (except for loading initially) and at least all of the web pages work properly (which is not even close to being the case in Safari).
I think Apple should have just used the Camino engine and improved on it cause Safari is a severely handicapped browser when it comes to compatibility.