Browser Testing

[Don G]

I currently have IE6 and Firefox installed on my machine, and I switch
between the two when testing web sites I am working on. It is my
understanding that IE5 is still pretty common. Is this correct? Should
I be testing my web site with IE5 as well? If so, does anyone know
where I might be able to download a copy? Is it possible to install IE5
on a machine with IE6?

I know that there are many browsers out there, and that each has it's
own quirks, but are the differences significant enough to merit
installing one or more additional alternate browsers? If so, which
browser(s) would you recommend testing with?

Thanks,

Don

[Toby Inkster]

Darin McGrew wrote:

Opera uses the "a" and "q" shortcuts to navigate from one link to the next.

Don't forget Shift+Arrow keys.

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[Nick Theodorakis]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:12:12 +0000, Toby Inkster
<us**********@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

WebMaster wrote:

But ie on mac just isn't the same version as ie on windows,
regardless of them having a same version number...

That's not it. It's that they're not the same browser. They have 0 lines
of code in common. They are two completely different browsers with the
same name.

Same as if Mozilla had released a browser called "Mozilla Internet
Explorer".

Or the same as if Internet Explorer called itself "Mozilla" in the
user-agent string? <g>

Nick

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[Stephen Poley]

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 21:15:27 +0100, "Barbara de Zoete"
<b_********@hotmail.com> wrote:

On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 20:13:06 +0000 (UTC), Darin McGrew
<mc****@stanfordalumni.org> wrote:

Opera uses the "a" and "q" shortcuts to navigate from one link to the next.

Never knew that. Learn something every day. Makes Opera even more attractive :-)

Ctrl-B gives a list of the keyboard shortcuts.

Obviously very few people learn all of them, but if you read through
them there's a good chance you'll spot a couple that make you think
"that's handy".

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[Nichola Collins]

In article <03*************************@canada.com>,
Jim Royal <ji******@canada.com> wrote:

In article <ma****************************@news.verizon.net >, Nichola
Collins <ma******@verizon.net> wrote:

I would add Mac Internet Explorer 4.51 to the Mac OS 9 collection.
That is the browser that is part of America Online 5, the latest AOL
client available to Mac OS 9 users.

I have not received a single hit on my site from IE 4.5 in the last few
months. I think this one can be safely relagated to the dust bin.

Unless you KNOW that your audience includes enough AOL users on Mac OS 9
that shouldn't be ignored entirely. At least to the extent of ensuring
the pages are readable, even if not necessarily pretty.

Not to be forgotten is that general recommendations may need to be
modified by what you know about your individual audience. Not all sites
have exactly the same audiences.

[Noel]

On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:37:17 GMT, Adrienne <ar********@sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

Because they are two completely different operating systems. There are
some things that IE Mac supports the IE Win does not, and vice versa.

It has nothing whatsoever to do with the operating systems and more to
do with the fact that there are two completely different development
teams.

[Noel]

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:50:00 -0500, Stan Brown
<th************@fastmail.fm> wrote:

By the way, to answer another of your questions, I've been told
that you can't have two releases of IE on the same machine if one
of them is IE6. I haven't tested that myself.

I came across a site recently that described how you can get all
versions of IE from 6 back to 3 to co-exist on the one machine. Apart
from some weird stuff going on in the 'About' dialogs, it appear to
work very well for the author of the page. I'll dig the link out and
post it here.

[Stan Brown]

"Noel" wrote in comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design:

On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 17:50:00 -0500, Stan Brown
<th************@fastmail.fm> wrote:

By the way, to answer another of your questions, I've been told
that you can't have two releases of IE on the same machine if one
of them is IE6. I haven't tested that myself.

I came across a site recently that described how you can get all
versions of IE from 6 back to 3 to co-exist on the one machine. Apart
from some weird stuff going on in the 'About' dialogs, it appear to
work very well for the author of the page. I'll dig the link out and
post it here.

Perhaps in the intervening eleven days, the reply to my comment
didn't reach your site.

I no longer recall who was kind enough to post the URL, but it's
http://labs.insert-title.com/labs/article795.aspx

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