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Why displays iCab a web page different to what one would expect?

iCab 3.0¹ respects the current web standards (HTML, CSS), nevertheless some web pages looks different in iCab than in other browsers² - sometimes even in a way the page will become unusable. What is the reason for this?

Web standards, especially HTML, don't define all aspects of the layout (this is not always possible and in most cases this doesn't make any sense), so there many different but nevertheless correct ways to display certain HTML elements for example. But many web authors rely on a certain layout of a certain browser (the browser they are using themselves). And when the page is then only tested with this one Browser, any layout issues and errors which would be visible in other browsers remain undetected.

Also all browser have bugs, which can lead to layout which is different to the standards-conforming layout and which is really wrong. But many web authors even rely on such wrong layout, so in the end the're relying on bugs of certain (popular) browsers. Browsers without these bugs may then have difficulties to display the page.

Therefore iCab can be configured so that it strictly respects the web standards or to simulate the bugs and wrong behaviour of other popuplar browsers. The following sections describe what can be modified in iCab and where these settings can be found to get the best compatibility with other Browers and most web pages (in case this is possible at all).

'Preferences' dialog
'View' menu

Please note that you should reload the web page after changing the preferences when you want to see the effect of the new setting. Sometimes you may need to try out different alternatives until you get a suitable result. This is true especially for the Identity setting).

In addition to the description about the best compatibility settings you'ff also find some hints about the most reasonable setting which is more secure for example, but which may have some issues on some badly designed web pages.

'Preferences' dialog

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General

Make sure that 'Quartz Text Rendering' ist enabled, otherwise the text may look a little but 'fuzzy'.
(Mac OS X only)

Fonts & Languange

Please choose the fonts which are shown in the screenshot, the easiest way to to this is to click the button 'Factory Settings'. The default font sizeshould be 16 and for the minimum font size 9.

Usually a font size of 14 and a minimum font size of 10 is much better to read, but these are different values than in most other browsers.

Page Display

To show all content of web pages, all of these options in this panel should be enabled, with the exception of the 'Accesskey' setting. Becaue no other browser will show 'Accesskey' information, most web designer don't assume that a browser would be able to display this information and so there can be layout issues with the 'Accesskey' option checked.

If you always want to see all navigation options within a web site, you should enable the 'Accesskey' option and let iCab underline all links.

To configure iCab to be as much compatible as possible to other browsers (in not respecting the web standards), all of these options should be unchecked.

JavaScript

Many web pages require JavaScript, therefore you should enable if. Please activate all JavaScript versions with theexception of 'JScript'.

Many web pages which do heavily depend on JavaScript may require that all of these Options are enabled. Otherwise navigating within the web site may fail.

Usually you can at least disable the option 'open windows automatically', which prevents that all the annoying popup advertising windows will open.

In some cases it can be necessary to disable the MSIE-DOM (a JavaScript extension from Microsofts, especially document.all), because somebadly programmed 'Browser Sniffer' will fail. But on some other badly programmed web pages, the MSIE-DOM could be even needed...

Usually the MSIE-DOM setting can be switched off, because iCabsupports the W3C compliant way for DHTML.

Images, IFrames

To make sure that all images and background images are displayed, youmust not filter them out. Even images from foreign servers shouldn't be filtered out. The same is true for embedded frames (IFrames), which can also contain images, but also much more.

It's often more secure to filter out IFrames from foreign servers. This prevents 'spoofing attacks' where parts of the web sites is coming from a server which is not shown in the address bar of the browser.

Style Sheets

Many web sites use 'Cascading Style Sheets' (CSS) to define the layout of the site. If the parts of the web page are displayed in a very chaotic way oron top of each other instead of side by side, you've probably switched off CSS.As screen resolution you should use 96 dpi, regardless of the real screen resolution.

Plug-ins

With the help of plug-ins (QuickTime, Shockwave Flash, Real Player, Windows Media, etc) a browser is able to display several other file formats. Manyweb pages will require such plugins, so in general Plugins should be enabledin iCab.

In case iCab crashes when a certain plugin is used, you may check foran update of the plug-ins (or just disable the plug-in). Here're the links to the most important browser plug-ins: Real, Shockwave, Flash.

Network

Some web pages will work correctly only if the 'Referrer' (the address ofthe web page you're coming from) is always sent to the server with each request.So set the 'Referrer' option to 'always', which is the default setting for almost all other browsers.

Important: The setting 'always' can be a big security issue. This is why iCab uses the setting 'only within the same domain' by default, which is a good compromise. Web pages which require the setting 'always' should be avoided.

Cookies

It is often required to accept 'Cookies', otherwise many web shops wont work and on many web pages ypu can not log-in without accepting the cookies. Switch off all of the options to accept all cookies and select 'always accept' in thepopup button.

If a web page still reports that the browser would not support cookies, theproblem is caused my a badly programmed server script which is confusedby the browser identity and then fails to send or recognize the requiredcookies. In this case you can usually work around the problem by selectinganother browser identity (like the one of FireFox or Internet Explorer) in iCab.Because a problem like this is caused by bugs on the server side, you shouldsend a bugreport to the administrators of the web site so they can fix the problem.

You can configure iCab to accept all cookies for the current session only. This way all the cookies will be automatically deleted when quitting iCab. The advantage for this is that its much mor difficult toidentify your browser and to collect information about the sites you're visiting. The disadvantage is that you have to login manually in web pages whichotherwise would offer an automatic login mechanism when cookies are permanently stored.

Identity

Many web servers deliver different HTML code to different browsers. Sometimes to work around some issues of a certain browser, but sometimes only because the author of the web page doesn't have enough knowledge about the web and its standards. This can cause problems if iCab gets some bad code only because the server isn't able to recognize iCab as 'supported' browser. This is why you can configure the identity with which iCab will identify itself to the server or JavaScript code. So in case a web page doesn't work correctly, changing thenetwork identity to 'FireFox', 'Opera' or 'Internet Explorer' may fix the problem.

Some 'Browser Sniffers' will also look for the JavaScript identity, soyou may also need to change the JavaScript identity setting. Check if the Netscape or the Internet Explorer setting will solve the problem. You canalso configure the version number, because some web pages will use at the browser version number to decide if a certain feature is used or not.In general you shouldn'd use version numbers lower than 5.0, for Netscapeyou can go up to 7.0 for Internet Explorer up to 6.0 (when newer versionsof Netscape or Internet Explorer will be released, you can probably alsocheck out larger version numbers)

Using the 'Default identity' menu item of the 'View' menu,you can change the identity setting much easier. This menu item willchange the JavaScript and the Network identity and a few other settings at the same time to mimic the selected browser.

'View' Menu

Text Encoding

Web pages should be written in a ways so that the browser gets the information about the text encoding that is used by the page. If thisinformation is missing, a browser has to assume some default encoding,which can be the wrong encoding and then some special characters may bedisplayed wrong. iCab will use the encoding that is configured inthe 'Text Encoding' menu when the encoding of the web page is unknown.So when a web page is displayed with some wrong characters, you may be able to fix this by selecting the correct encoding manually in this menu.In most cases the encoding 'Western Europe/USA (ISO-8859-1)' should be correct. But also 'UTF-8' is often used.

Execute JavaScript

Many web pages require that JavaScript is enabled. If a navgation menu or a form doesn't work it's probably because JavaScript is switched off.

Note: If the navigation menu doesn't work, even if JavaScript is enabled,the problem can be also related to the 'Identity' setting. Some web pagesrefuse to work if the browser is not recognized as 'FireFox' or 'Internet Explorer'. So selecting a different identity in iCab may solve these problemsas well.

Filter Manager active

If you're using the Filter Manager, you are able to configure specific browser settings for certain sites (without affecting other sites, which will still use the normal settings). This is a very powerfultool and can be used for many usefuly tasks (like filtering advertising banners etc). But sometimes it can be usefuly to switch off the filter manager completely to test how certain settings affect the layout of the current page(like finding the best identity setting for a web page). So using the menu item'Filter manager Active' you can temporarily switch off the filter manager.Don't forget to enable it again afterwards.

Bugreports

It's always possible that a web page will be displayed in a bad way because of a bug in iCab. If you've checked out all the items from above and you can't solve the problem, please send a bug report to the iCab-Support. Please include the folloing information in your bug report:

The web address (URL) of the page.
A detailed description of what's being displayed in iCab and what you're expecting that should be displayed. You may also create some screenshots and include it in your bug report.
Which version of iCab do you use (see the 'About' dialog box for the exact version number)? Did an older version of iCab display the page correct?
Which MacOS version do you use (the exact version number)? When you're using MacOS 8/9 and MacOSX as well, does the problem occur under all MacOS versions?

Thank you very much!

1) This description was tested with iCab 3.0 Beta 237, but will ba also valid for newer releases.
2) We use the browsers Safari and Firefox for a comparison of the 'correct' layout.

An alternative web browser designed for the macOS, featuring different tools and functionalities that are not integrated in other apps

What's new in iCab 6.0.11:

Danish localization added
New option available in the „Windows“ settings to open windows in a „cascade“ instead of using the previous position.

Read the full changelog

There are various web browsers available for macOS, and most users oscillate between popular titles, such as Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, or Firefox. iCab is yet another alternative for navigating the internet, and tries to incorporate by default all sorts of useful functions.

User friendly web browser packed with various functionalities

Since it retains the design of a classic web browser, finding your way around iCab is quite easy and intuitive: start by writing URLs in the address bar, and then navigate its content in the main area.

iCab also provides basic capabilities, such as recording your browsing history, allowing you to create and manage bookmarks, adjusting the font size, extracting the RSS feeds available on the page, and so on.

Built in functions that are not included in other web browsers

First off, iCab offers you the possibility to filter the content displayed on a certain website / group of websites: you can choose not to display images, embedded iframes, Java applets, JavaScripts, to change the default browser identity, and much more.

Moreover, iCab provides a Kiosk mode, records all HTML errors, comes with a download and a link manager, allows you to visualize the page source code, helps you deal with HTML cookies, enables you to browse in private mode and more.

Uncomplicated web browser that integrates various tools in order to differentiate from the more popular alternatives

Besides the classic web browsing functions that one should expect when launching a web browser, iCab also integrates a number of functions that are normally made available by third party applications, or various extensions.