Which browsers to test?

[sweevo]

Hello,

I've done a lot of intranet development but would like to become more involved with external sites. Usually I've just tested my sites on the current versions of IE and Navigator.

Which browsers and versions should I download so I can test my sites properly?

Cheers.

 

[Wullie]

Hi mate,

Opera

http://www.opera.com

Mozilla

http://www.mozilla.org

Hope this helps Wullie

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[GUJUm0deL]

Besides just what browsers, it might also be a good idea to check different browser versions...such as: NN4.75, NN6, NN7, IE5.5, IE6, OperaXX...
Also might be a good idea to check on diff. platforms...like IBM compatible, MAC, etc... I have not failed; I merely found 100,000 different ways of not succeding...

 

[isNaN]

There is a realy good browser & OS statistics breakdown here...

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

In a perfect world you would test all of them and have your site work in all of them, but fact is that you may want to use some plug-in or scripting technology that simply doesn't work in older browsers. This kind of statistical information plus some thought into who your target audience will be should tell you which browsers (& OS) you should test and which ones might not matter to your project.

N-Joi

jaxon

 

[E2]

As GUJUm0deL stated, it's very important that you test cross platform. I do alot of 'intranet' web development and I test my applications and pages across the following different OS's:

Windows (NT/W2K/.NET)
AIX
IRIX
MPRAS
Linux
HP-UX
Solaris

However, you might not have access to such platforms...as most of them are rarely used by the average consumer. If you can't directly access these OS's, try to find someone who uses them and have them go to your site and check it out. .:. Success has a simple formula: do your best every time.

 

[sweevo]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I know it's a ball acher to get things working on as many systems as possible but I like to be thorough. I'll heed your advice.