Simon Willison: Missing the point:
Simon Willison: Missing the point: "The problem isn't the quality of the browser, it's the quality of the web sites themselves. IE for Windows has a ridiculously loose HTML parser that will interpret and display just about any garbage you care to throw at it. [...] The only way a competing browser could render those sites in exactly the same way as IE would be for it to reverse engineer the IE rendering engine in its entirety, which kind of eliminates the point of having a different browser in the first place."
No. The point of having a different browser isn't to force people to code according to standards. The point is to avoid a monopoly situation. Safari should not try to emulate IE's rendering, but it should strive to be as forgiving of the HTML that is currently out there as possible, and make that it's development priority.