On 2011/01/12 19:56 (GMT+0100) Gabriele Romanato composed:
Don't get me wrong but ... What is the percentage of use of
Seamonkey? ;-)
Family trees:
1-IE
2-Gecko [1]
SeaMonkey [Mozilla Suite renamed]
Firefox [progeny of Mozilla aka Gecko]
a bunch of others
3a-KHTML
Konqueror
3b-Webkit (a fork of KHTML)
Safari
Chrome
*-Opera
Since rendering improvements get backported into KHTML from Webkit, one can
consider them equivalent as long as the versions are the same age.
Philip, as a rule of thumb, you should always test in major league
browsers, like IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome.
SeaMonkey is as major as major gets, while testing in Safari is same as
testing in Chrome as long as the little nits (e.g. font smoothing; age) are
kept equivalent. One of each of the 3 majors is enough. There is no Safari on
Linux, while there is as a practical matter no KHTML on anything other than
*nix. Opera, a minor though highly compliant player, is generally as
compliant as compliant gets, so testing on it should be considered
(unnecessary) brownie points unless its tiny share somehow manages to get
differently compliant.
Minority browsers get you mad. I used to have up to 10 browsers on my
computer, and once I got access to the access logs of the sites I was
developing I got struck by the fact that almost all users (98%-99%)
were using either IE flavors or Firefox.
http://bclary.com/blog/2006/04/21/browser-detection-part-duh-will-they-ever-learn/
http://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
[1] http://geckoisgecko.org/
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