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Posted on November 03, 1999

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by Martin Burns (MartinB)

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Martin Burns

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User since: April 26, 1999

Last login: March 30, 2010

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Now that we have our excellent Browser Archive, you'll want a systematic list for testing which will cover the vast majority of users. And here it is.

Or at least it's the one I use to sign off major projects for general audiences. My rule is that while the site may not be all singing and dancing in all these browsers, it should at least be useable, and not break.

So while the current (November 1999) design of evolt.org looks really, really good in IE4.5 on Mac - with beautiful hovers and so on - it is still recognisable - and very useable - back to betas of Netscape1.1.

Platform Windows Mac (Unix) Linux Solaris
Browser          
Netscape 1.1 1.1 1.1 1.1  
  2.02 2.02 2.02 2.02  
  3.04 3.04 3.04 3.04  
  4.08 4.08 4 4  
  4.61 4.61 4.61 4.61  
  5
(under development but still available)		 5
(under development but still available)		 5
(under development but still available)		 5
(under development but still available)		  
Internet Explorer   2.1      
  3.02 3.01      
  4.01 4.01      
  5 4.5     5
iCab   1.6      
Opera 3.51        
Lynx 2.8.1   2.8.1 2.8.2  
A screenreader for the visually impaired pwWebSpeak        
WebTV Viewer Viewer      
        kfm from KDE 1.1.2  

Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.

Amongst his favourite things is ZopeDrupal, which he uses to run his personal site. He's starting to (re)gain a sneaking regard for ECMAscript since the arrival of unobtrusive scripting.

He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.

Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?

Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?

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Submitted by TroySwoosh on December 12, 1999 - 03:45.

I am an Amiga user and there are still many of us out there. Amiga browsers should be added to the site!!!

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Submitted by MartinB on April 7, 2000 - 05:14.

Now that ie5 for Mac has been released, this should be added to the list.

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Submitted by MartinB on August 19, 2000 - 05:50.

ie5.5 for Windows should also be added to the list - it has some very interesting CSS quirks.

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Submitted by MartinB on September 7, 2000 - 09:18.

If you've got access to a PDA, it's probably also worthwhile having a quick look on that too - most PDAs (certainly the market leader, PalmOS) use the AvantGo browser. You won't get frames or scripting at all, and unless you meta-tag your pages as being PDA-friendly, you won't get tables either. You'll also need to be careful with colours too - most PDAs don't do colour at all, just 2-bit greyscale.

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Netscape6

Submitted by MartinB on January 14, 2001 - 11:33.

Need I mention that this is available for:

and you should be testing on each of them.

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Have you tested the new comers?

Submitted by gadget_lover_0007 on September 1, 2008 - 06:46.

IE 5.5, 6 & even 7 have gone extinct. Now the focus of the majority of users is shifting from things like IE & opera towards open source web tools like mozilla firefox.. Microsoft is consistently losing its share of loyal IE users to firefox.Here is a list of Top 16 Web browsers & browser testing tools that deserve replacing the Internet Explorer web browser & other famous web browser testing utilities.

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