I think it all depends on the available budget and the project goals. Who wouldn't want to have his/her site to be viewable in all browsers and with no glitches at all? ... but time and money constrains must dictate priorities. Once I worked on a small-to-medium size project where we only had resources to support IE (6 at the time).
Yev On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:19 AM, david <gn...@hawaii.rr.com> wrote: > 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 > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
