I use firefox because of it's wonderful CSS capabilities (especially over IE). Such as rounded borders, correct box model handling and the ability to handle fixed containers.

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Firefox. Definately. IE leaks ridiculously. I used to use Opera, a few years back, but never really liked it.

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I use Opera for it's speed and tabbing, so naturally I create all my websites for this. I then adapt them so they still look good in IE, FF and Mozilla (whcih is as close as I can get to testing it on a mac browser). If anyone creates pages and tests them only in IE, please don't. It is:
a) very amatuerish
b) damaging to the web standards project
and c) really anoying to the countless people like me who do not use the popular however sh!t browser IE.

and for those selfish people who don't care about any of that and need yet another reason to adapt their pages for more browsers,

d) it discourages alot of potential veiwers of your site like me!

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I think Mozilla or Firefox is the best bet for browser compatibility tests. You can test for IE, and i suggest doing so(because it breaks stuff due to its crappy design and lack of updates for a while). That being said, Firefox or Mozilla both use the same codebase for mutliple platforms. Building a site that looks good on them should look good to most people on most OS's. If people still DEMAND to use IE then just load a page saying go get firefox and make em download it.

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ok, first I want to say: do not use Internet explorer! The IE is really bad when you compare it to the others! I used opera for a long while...its the best browser you can have, except that some site are not displayed very well...and for example you cant use opera for gmail!
So I changed to firefox which is just great! Its the easiest and simplest browser! It so good, you have to try it. why using the IE when you can get a free firefox??

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I would have to vote for IE. Its compatable with most websites, in fact I have yet to find one its not. But its fairly secure and well made. Though I have only used Netscape other then IE so i can not say anything about the rest of them. Though I have heard about Firefox from a few freinds but I won't test it until I get my personal computer back.

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Although I use IE and Firefox side by side, I prefer Firefox because it is standards compliant. I look forward to the day when exclusive Firefox users will outnumber IE users.

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Hi all,

Any one tried to Design a Resolution FREE Web site (means Website Remain same in all Type of Monitor Resolutions)?, IE and FireFox Gives Totaly different Response to this approach.

Any solutions...?

Arunkumar.H.G

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Hey, i use firefox but designing pages for one browser type, and then adjusting them for others doesn't seem like a professional approach to me. Basicly i found that pages validated with validator.w3.org have a 90% chance of showing up correctly on all browsers. I think it's better if you start with a generic desing, and after some time, take a look at the visitor stats of your site and see what are the most used browsers, and optimize the site for them.
You can also try a scripting approach(i.e. php script that returns output according to user agent, but that's time consuming and few will appreciate it)

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Anything but IE.
It can't render pages correctly.
Do an internet search for "box model" and I'm sure you'll find lots of debates relating to IE.
I personally use Firefox becuase it's uncluttered to gives me a lot of page viewing area.

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