Which browsers are you checking your websites with?

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Which browsers are you checking your websites with?

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I've been wondering: which browsers do you use to check your websites for acurate display?

Do you use Netscape 6 or 7 to check your websites - and Mozilla? Do you run stuff on a Mac as well? Do you still double-check with Netscape 4.+?

Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer (Mac)
Netscape 6.+
Netscape 4.+
Mozilla (includes all subvariants as they all use Gecko)
Opera
Konqueror
Lynx

Personally, I have grown a bit lazy. While I used to check everything with two different versions of IE, NS4.7, Mozilla, Opera and Konqueror, I nowadays only check with IE5.5, Mozilla and Operah. NS4.7 for plain HTML would be fine, but as soon as you have client-side scripting it makes a mess.

What do you use to check your websites with?
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Post by jollyjumper »

Hi Patrik,

I check my sites in IE4(only when I'm in a really good mood :-)), IE5.5, IE6, NS6.2, NS7, Opera7, IE4.5(mac), IE5(mac) and soon I will check my sites also with Netscape versions on the Mac.

Netscape 4 is done with as for my part. As it is a very old browser and it's really incompatible with todays techniques.

Greetz Jolly.
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Post by patrikG »

Given that we all want to create websites which work and look equally well on every browser, I am wondering exactly how to cut down on the "quality-assurance" for the visuals. I am not using CSS 2 for simple compatibility-issue (although I would love to 8) ). The differences in the layout-engines between, say, IE5.5 and IE6 regarding HTML4 and CSS1.+ are neglible, as far as I can tell (I am consciously leaving out Javascript here). Same goes for the Gecko-based browsers Mozilla, NS etc.

Why are you using IE5.5 AND IE6? And NS6.2 and NS7? Isn't one version sufficient or do you notice great differences?
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Post by jollyjumper »

Hi Patric,

As for IE5.5 and IE6 I don't know, just to be safe. Maybe I check it more to be sure that all my javascript functions work in both versions.

As for NS6.2 and NS7 there is a major difference. NS6.2 doens't handle width and height in percentage values well, so a site can look great in NS7 and doesn't work in NS6.2.

Greetz Jolly.
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Post by Stoker »

I don't have IE on my geekbox so I use Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror, Galeon and W3M.. If it looks ok in thos, it usually is readable in Bill Gates as well..
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Post by Skyzyx »

I usually use Netscape 6.2.3 to test as a pre-Mozilla 1.0 build. Moz 1.0 implements much better XML/XSL support, as well as techniques to import external XML data into HTML/XHTML pages. I use the current Moz build for post-1.0 testing. I use Mozilla on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and BeOS.

As far as IE, I test with IE5 and IE6, since IE6 has much better support for CSS2, and I believe it finally completes the CSS1 spec. IE5 is my "low-end" modern browser. For Mac, I test IE5 and 5.1... mainly to work out quirky CSS rendering bugs, and to check font sizes.

In Opera, I test 6 and 7 on Windows, and 5 on Mac OS.

I'm gonna wait on Safari until a 1.0 build is released.

On Linux, besides Moz, I test with Konqueror.

For POS browsers, I test with Netscape 4.7x/4.8, Netscape 3.02, and IE 3.02 and 4.01.
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