Browser Testing

It is a good idea to test your site in every possible browser.....on
every os.

IE 4-6
Netscape 7 (gecko - this includes Mozilla)
Netscape 6 (beta-gecko)
Netscape 4
Opera 4-7
Lynx

Those are what I test in on my Winbox. I don't have Linux nor a Mac.
*sigh*


Signed, Thomas M. - GD-Studio.com

Previously in
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Mark Parnell <webmaster (AT) clarkecomputers (DOT) com.au> said:

I have IE 4.01, 5.01, 5.5 and 6 all installed on
this machine here.

Whoops - forgot I also have IE3. The icon's different so I didn't notice
it.

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Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

Previously in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.stylesheets,alt.html,comp.infosystem s.www.authoring.site-design,
logic_earth <Thomas (AT) gd-studio (DOT) com> said:

Please quote the relevant parts of the post you are replying to. I
realise Google groups doesn't make that easy, but it is possible.

[Testing browsers]

IE 4-6

Make sure you include both 5 and 5.5 - there were some significant
differences between them, despite the same major version number.

Netscape 7 (gecko - this includes Mozilla)

Only Mozilla 1.0 or 1.1 IIRC. A more recent version would be a good
idea.

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Mark Parnell
http://www.clarkecomputers.com.au

On 2 Mar 2005 19:52:03 -0800, "logic_earth" <Thomas (AT) gd-studio (DOT) com>
wrote:

It is a good idea to test your site in every possible browser.....on
every os.

Always supposing you have unlimited resources. I suspect you haven't
looked at the contents page of http://browsers.evolt.org/ though.

The idea of standardising markup is that one should not need to do this.
(Do you seriously suppose that makers of telephone exchanges test them
with every model of telephone in use? Of course they don't. Yet
telephone exchanges manage a far higher degree of universality of access
than websites.)

--
Stephen Poley

http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/

Don G wrote:

I currently have IE6 and Firefox installed on my machine, and I
switch
between the two when testing web sites I am working on. It is my
understanding that IE5 is still pretty common. Is this correct?

More browser stats broken down by month (and screen size, OS platform
etc), here:

http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp

Toby Inkster wrote:

logic_earth wrote:
I don't have Linux

No excuse.
http://www.knoppix.net/get.php

I didn't get on with Debian (couldn't get my winmodem to work) - maybe
it's better now.

Currently using Suse 9.1 Personal (dual boot with w2k) - pretty good -
got everything except VPN working, and firefox & thunderbird share files
with their windows counterparts (with a little fiddling), so that
whichever OS I boot I've got the same mail & bookmarks. Kind of
redundant though, since I haven't bothered booting windows in months.

Chris

"Toby Inkster" <usenet200503 (AT) tobyinkster (DOT) co.uk> wrote

WebMaster wrote:

But ie on mac just isn't the same version as ie on windows,
regardless of them having a same version number...

That's not it. It's that they're not the same browser. They have 0 lines
of code in common. They are two completely different browsers with the
same name.

Never looked at the code, actually :-)

Rudy

Same as if Mozilla had released a browser called "Mozilla Internet
Explorer".

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Contact Me ~ http://tobyinkster.co.uk/contact

"Toby Inkster" <usenet200503 (AT) tobyinkster (DOT) co.uk> wrote

WebMaster wrote:

only thing is, [Opera]'s not free :-)

Browsers are still one arena where the best things aren't free.

I'll settle for the next best thing then :-)
Besides that, I've tried it once (several years ago, that is), and I just
didn't like it... I like firefox more...

Rudy

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On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 22:13:09 +0100, Stephen Poley wrote:

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:04:50 -0500, Don G <mail4dag (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:

I currently have IE6 and Firefox installed on my machine, and I switch
between the two when testing web sites I am working on. It is my
understanding that IE5 is still pretty common. Is this correct? Should
I be testing my web site with IE5 as well?

Depends a bit on what your site is, but probably for now, yes. At least
to make sure the site is readable. I wouldn't worry about getting the
layout beautiful. Note that 5.5 and 5.0 are rather different. 5.0 makes
a pig's ear of CSS, 5.5 manages to get a bit more of it right.

But note also that there is no single browser called IE 6.0. There is a
host of browsers calling themselves IE 6.0, all with a different set of
bugs. I've had a page which looked fine in my copy of IE 6.0 display two
different bugs in the browsers used by two colleagues, both of which
also claimed to be IE 6.0.

So, if I understand you correctly, IE6 isn't. It is actually IESixxes...
Figures. Sure am glad I avoid the monopoly.

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 15:34:26 -0500, Don G wrote:

If you can get your hands on a Mac, use that for testing as well. I was
given a 4 year-old Mac, and I was amazed at how messed up 2 of my sites
were when viewed in IE for Mac and Netscape/Mozilla for Mac.

Interesting... I don't suppose anyone has any clue as to why the
rendering for the same program would be different between the Mac and
the PC version.

Don

It might have something to do with the numerous versions MS puts out...
multiple IE6s for windows alone. If they do that, how could they make the
'same' one for another OS?

Carolyn