ibflyfishin@yahoo.com (David Logan) writes:
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> I am taking a website that has been developed for IE browsers running
> on Windows systems to a multi platform multi browser site. What
> versions of what browsers is reasonable to have to work with.[/color]
All current and future browsers.
The trick to that is to use standards. Use validating HTML and CSS and
use the W3C DOM where possible. It is reasonable to expect all (near)
future browsers to understand this correctly. However, you should
still make the pages degrade cleanly when Javascript, or particular
features, are not available.
Then you must decide which current browsers you want to support as
well. Some of these have bad standards support (IE in particular),
and you make the page degrade cleanly for these browsers as well.
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> This site is going to require users have Adobe Acrobat reader
> installed[/color]
That is a problem. There are other ways to show PDF-files, and even
Acrobat isn't always integrated into the browser (i.e., you can't tell
the difference between opening the PDF file and just saving it).
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> and windows IE users are going to have access to an ActiveX
> control for additional functionality.[/color]
Extra functionality is not important if you can use the page without
it. It's just a bonus.
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> So is there a list somewhere of browsers[/color]
If there is, it's pretty certain that it isn't complete, and it will
not prepare you for the future.
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> and also is there any kind of virtual system for testing these.[/color]
That would be <URL:http://www.browsercam.com/>
It'll only show how it looks, the Javascript is harder to test.
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> I don't have any unix or mac systems available to test from so how
> will I know that everything is working on them?[/color]
You can, fairly easily, get a Linux or BSD system running on any
standard PC. The Mac browsers (mostly Safari, not many people use
IE 5.2 for Mac any more) are harder to test.
Good luck.
/L
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