Jim Davis wrote: >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Dave Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2005 7:42 AM >>To: CF-Talk >>Subject: [SOT] Supporting multiple browsers and versions >> >>Specifically... >> >>- Do you serve different style sheets or pages depending on the browser >>and >>version? How many? >> >>- Are you coding to W3C standards? Which one(s)? How much does that >>actually >>help your pages be more universally compatible? >> >> > >Whenever possible code to standards then change (and comment!) for browser >issues. > > > >>- What's an accurate, up to date source of info on html, css, and js >>capabilities and quirks for a lot of different browsers and versions? >> >> > >The JavaScript and DHTML guides at MSDN.microsoft.com are pretty good and >inform you of which features are in which specs (but not how to code for the >other browsers). > > > >>- It doesn't appear that you can have multiple versions of IE installed on >>the same machine. If you have to support them, do you actually have >>separate >>machines whose only purpose is to be equipped with IE 4, 5, and 6, maybe >>even 3? How else can you test? >> >> > >MS (formerly Connectix) Virtual PC or VMWare are absolute god sends for >this. Using them you can install any x86 OS (all DOS/Windows, Linux, BeOS, >Lindows, etc) to software only "Virtual PCs". You can then copy virtual PCs >(which are really just files on your hard disk) to easily create test >platforms. > >For example you might install Windows 2000 to a virtual PC. You then make a >copy of that and install IE 5.5 then another copy and install IE 6.0. Now >you can run all of them as windows on your host machine for testing. > >The only thing you can't do (since this is x86 emulator) is test Mac OSs. >There's still no really good solution for that other than getting a Mac and >then you're still left with multi-booting or multiple machines for testing >multiple OSes (I REALLY WANT a PPC emulator!) > > > >>- Do you have mac, linux and pc browser test machines? >> >> > >Personally, no. I use Virtual PC for PC and Linux and trust to the graces >of friends for Macs (since I can't see spending the money and dedicating the >space for one personally). > > > >>- For general public sites, what do you consider a reasonable list of >>browsers and versions that you need to support? >> >> > >Depends on the site... right now I would say on the PC IE 6, 5.5 and 5 and >Firefox 1.0 as browsers should be the minimum. However you might want to >add earlier versions of Mozilla and IE-based browsers. AOL testing would be >good as well, if you can, although it still uses the IE engine it does >modify it. > >One the Mac it looks like IE 5.5 is losing ground steadily to Safari while >on Linux Firefox seems to be king. > >Jim Davis > > > > >
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