Felix Miata wrote:
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
Note that REGIONALLY, IE use has dropped quite a bit in Europe,
according to EU figures ...
Also, expressing browser market share in percentage means you need to
convert that into the equivalent number of users before you decide if
you want to ignore Opera's 2% or not. 2% of 200 million people is a lot
of potential customers to ignore!
[1] http://geckoisgecko.org/
With links to very useful information, too.
Question that maybe gets this back on topic for CSS-D: Is there a way to
check that a particular browser understands or ignores a particular CSS
feature/attribute you're using?
--
David
gn...@hawaii.rr.com
authenticity, honesty, community
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