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What Browsers Should Be Taken Into Account? Which Should Be Dismissed?
This is a discussion on What Browsers Should Be Taken Into Account? Which Should Be Dismissed?, within the Web Design in General section. This forum and the thread "What Browsers Should Be Taken Into Account? Which Should Be Dismissed?" are both part of the Designing Your Website category.
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 Apr 10 2008, 09:54 PM
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Fresh Squeezed  Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 14-February 08 Member No.: 80  |
Hi! What are the current standards as far as designing for browsers? Which browsers and/or versions are obsolete?
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Apr 10 2008, 10:53 PM
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 Rapid Squeezer Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: 15-February 08 From: US of A Member No.: 150 |
I say if it works in Current Firefox, Netscape, Opera, Safari and IE6 + then your going to have almost everything taken care of.
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Apr 11 2008, 03:07 AM
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 Master of the Universe Group: Advisors Posts: 1,157 Joined: 15-February 08 From: London, England Member No.: 141 |
I agree with Justin.
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Apr 11 2008, 06:52 AM
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 Rapid Squeezer Group: Advisors Posts: 479 Joined: 14-February 08 From: Stockport Member No.: 75 |
Yeh that list about covers it
Good places to look are the W3C list of browser market share http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp and get a tracking script such as google analytics on your site and see what browsers your users are using Craig -------------------- |
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Apr 11 2008, 09:41 AM
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Rapid Squeezer Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: 15-February 08 From: US of A Member No.: 150 |
Jason agrees with me? The world is coming to an end?! lol
By the way, google search Multiple IE's and you can install multiple versions of IE on your current operating system. It is what I use and I have 6 and 7 running simultaneously. -------------------- Currently Available for work: - XTHML, CSS, Flash, Actionscript, PHP, ASP, Ajax -
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Apr 11 2008, 11:29 AM
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 Don deluzione Group: Team Leaders Posts: 1,006 Joined: 13-February 08 From: Canada eh? Member No.: 7 |
QUOTE (JustinStudios @ Apr 11 2008, 08:41 AM)  Jason agrees with me? The world is coming to an end?! lol By the way, google search Multiple IE's and you can install multiple versions of IE on your current operating system. It is what I use and I have 6 and 7 running simultaneously. Keep in mind that that doesn't work on a Vista machine 
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Apr 11 2008, 05:02 PM
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Rapid Squeezer Group: Members Posts: 156 Joined: 15-February 08 From: US of A Member No.: 150 |
QUOTE (delusion @ Apr 11 2008, 10:29 AM) Keep in mind that that doesn't work on a Vista machine Ummm What DOES work on a Vista machine? -------------------- Currently Available for work: - XTHML, CSS, Flash, Actionscript, PHP, ASP, Ajax -
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Apr 11 2008, 05:47 PM
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Don deluzione Group: Team Leaders Posts: 1,006 Joined: 13-February 08 From: Canada eh? Member No.: 7 |
QUOTE (JustinStudios @ Apr 11 2008, 04:02 PM) Ummm What DOES work on a Vista machine? anything else? I haven't come across a program that I use that doesn't work or crash. So far my Vista is at least as stable, if not more stable, than my previous XP-systems.. -------------------- |
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Apr 11 2008, 08:26 PM
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 Squeeze Machine Group: Administrators Posts: 643 Joined: 13-February 08 From: Catching the squeezed drips downunder. Member No.: 13 |
LOL - look out here comes the Vista debate
 Start a new thread for that guys  I agree with most of the points... You should be looking at IE6(unfortunately) and higher, Firefox, Netscape (which render very similarly), Opera, Safari and if it's your market, WAP/Handheld devices which usually display the same (for phones). -------------------- |
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Apr 12 2008, 01:10 AM
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 Rapid Squeezer Group: Members Posts: 123 Joined: 14-February 08 From: Hounslow, London Member No.: 133 |
I make sure the content is viewable in IE 5.5 as well. I get about 100 visitors a month using it, and it usually takes only a minute to work out any minor bugs if you've got the design sorted in IE6. I stopped making it look perfect, though
 I can't say I've ever tested for Netscape, seems you guys think I should start doing so! -------------------- |
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Apr 12 2008, 01:16 AM
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Squeeze Machine Group: Administrators Posts: 643 Joined: 13-February 08 From: Catching the squeezed drips downunder. Member No.: 13 |
I have never found a site that doesn't work in the later versions of Netscape that works in Firefox... I have it installed just in case there are some irregularities but I have yet to find any -- unlike the bad old days with NS vs IE.
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Apr 12 2008, 04:06 AM
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Squeeze Machine Group: Mentor Posts: 601 Joined: 15-February 08 From: UK Member No.: 143 |
I wouldn't bother with Netscape. Too few people use it, and it's too similar to Firefox to merit special attention.
My list for testing: IE6 IE7 Firefox Opera Safari These browsers account for 98.6% of my traffic over the last month. I only test in the latest (non-beta) versions of FF/Opera/Safari, because users of these browsers upgrade rapidly. I also only test in Windows. I also use SeaMonkey because it allows me to test <link> navigation properly, and I use FANGS to check the textual rendering. This post has been edited by MikeHopley: Apr 12 2008, 04:19 AM |
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Apr 13 2008, 03:12 PM
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Fresh Squeezed Group: Members Posts: 28 Joined: 14-February 08 Member No.: 80 |
Thanks everyone! Youve been really helpful! I was afraid IE6 would make the list!
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Apr 13 2008, 04:54 PM
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Squeezing Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 16-February 08 Member No.: 157 |
Visitor Browser monthly cumulative statistical report (StatCounter) for my site as of today.
48.60% MSIE 7.0 22.40% MSIE 6.0 15.60% Firefox 2.0.0 5.40% Safari 1.2 3.80% Firefox 1.0.7 1.40% Mozilla 5.0 1.00% Firefox 1.5.0 1.00% Firefox 3.0b3 0.60% Opera 9.27 0.40% Opera 9.26 0.20% Netscape 7.2 0.20% Camino 1.5 Chuck Upsdell's Browser News Stats - 12 April 2008 -- Be sure to read the caveats! I test my pages for display and function in current versions of MSIE 6, MSIE 7, Firefox 2, Opera 9 and Safari 3 graphical Browsers at 1280 by 1024, 1024 by 768, 800 by 600 resolutions, and small screen rendering mode. James This post has been edited by jamesicus: Apr 13 2008, 07:00 PM -------------------- Interoperable Web Pages - Always with validated HTML/XHTML/XHTML+RDFa, CSS, RDF, XML, RSS
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