Web Browser Support (which versions?)

[Rich]

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I've always focused on IE and a check in Opera to make sure things look ok on my websites. Last night I had to talk someone thru installing Netscape 7 (as its the only support browser at that university) and thought I'd install it myself to check out my sites.

Most sites are ok but CSS looks a bit 'different' and I had a fair chunck of JavaScript to rewrite. Luckly I've always avoided Javascript, so I only had Book-Worm to work on (which is 50% script )

Having looked around other sites it looks like there are a quite a lot of sites with issues. e.g. The product pages on the new Dabs site are un-useable as you cant get to see the product description.

Anyway, I was just wondering what web browsers people use to test their sites and whether there are any new browsers that should be tested with? (I seem to have lost track of browser news since IE6 came out!)

[Zzzz]

Here's how I do it:

• Build/Design on Opera or Moz (NS *is* Moz)
• Then tweak for IE

Sound back to front? - Not really. IE is a disaster for CSS and standards. It's sloppy in the extreme but takes very, very little effort to tweak it if you've designed first on a standards complient browser.

If you do it the other way around, IE lets you get away with far too many CSS No No's and it can be a hair pulling out experience to fix the lil' devil

NN4 -> I say let 'em rot. Use @import just so the poor sods can at least read it if they really have too

Zzzz

[Ecco]

I'm with mr sleepy (Zzzz) on this one, as it's always safer to design for Mozilla and test in IE. Much lower "AAAArrrgggghhh!" factor doing it this way round