Lately, the Internet is raving about the
Chrome Browser from Google. While there are some features that I like and are better than Firefox and IE, it has problem in handling basic layouts.
This is the portion of a normal
page on a small screen Fujitsu P1510 running with 120DPI settings when viewed by IE6:

The same port of the same page is rendered by Firefox v3.5.3 and captured as follows:

Notice the graph has been incorrectly laid out covering part of the text. Below is the same portion rendered on Google Chrome 3.0.195.21:

Chrome suffers the same layout problem as in Firefox. So far the only browser that handles this basic layout correctly is the 'ancient' IE6 browser, despise so much hot-air being pumped into the Net about Chrome's JavaScript superiority.
Is it just pure hype? The figures don't lie.
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