Hi,

I've seen several discussions about browsers arrond the board, but I havn't yet found a poll like this. I think that it could be useful for designers to know which browser to count on when you're design your homepage. Even then that I know that the diffrence between Mozilla, Netscape and Opera is almost zero.

I hope that this would be funny..:-)

Cheers
Jens

To be honest, designers should go the extra mile to make it as compatible as they can and make it standard. Government sites must meet every requirement so why not all sites the same.

The difference depends on proprietory aspects of the browser, if you can avoid using them then the only marginal difference will be seen in how it's displayed.


Cheers,


MC

I test my sites in Mozilla, IE, Firefox and Opera (PC), and then I use iCapture to see what it looks like on a Mac. I hate it when sites have been designed for a browser like IE, and they end up looking crap in a good browser like Firefox.

I think developers/designers should aim to have their site working in most OS/Browsers/Screen Resoloutions.

cool, i think most people now agree to webstandards. by the way i test my site with the 3 most common browser. ie (5.0,5.5,6.0), mozilla(latest), opera(latest coz old ones are buggy) and netscape 4

You're new here, you have my respect already

I love Opera & Gecko based ones and hate IE with passion. I naturally test my site with all browsers I have available (in windows and linux). And for me, making it look good on IE is always most painful task. It really is funny how a standard compliant site that looks fine in Netscape is totally crap in Microsoft's browser. And yet 95% of web users still stick with it...

By the way thanks for that link to iCapture. I wasn't aware of such a service until now. I'll have my site processed there as I write. Really handy as I for example don't have access to a machintosh.

i like opera the best, its just all the features that make it the ultimate browser. i mean, there's inbuilt mail client, ftp client, irc client, popup blocking, ad blocking, cookie filtering, ..., ... the list goes on...

YeahI must agree on that (I prefer Opera also) also the tons of "panels" you can get for it make it realy usefull, FireFox is an good alternative, especially because it's free and it's compactible with most websites.

(sometimes I experience problems with Opera because the webmasters use IE-only javascripts etc )

Exactly, Opera's the best alternative, and we must stimulate the web comunity to ban these javascript things. And generally make compliant HTML.

I am a Firefox person is has all I need.