Browser inconsistencies : what is the most efficient development regime? - Page 2

Roger Withnell

I seem to spend far too much of my time struggling with browser
inconsistencies concerning Javascript (not to mention CSS).

What do you think is the most efficient development regime, including both
PC and Mac? In particular, two questions come to mind:

1 In which browser should I develop to ensure that the maximum amount of
code is correct, so that it would work the maximum number of browsers.

2 In which browsers should I test the code to ensure that it will work for
practically all users? I'd like to think that this is a short list of three
but I hope it's not more than five.

I've been driven to ask these questions after a very frustrating week
building a multi-level navigation bar which the customer can design and
build. The structure is held in an SQL database which is transferred into
Javascript arrays when the page loads. I've had lots of problems between IE
and NN and particularly between NN7 and NN8. I'm beginning to think that NN7
is rubbish.

If I were to answer above, I think I would say NN8 to Q1 and NN8 (on PC and
Mac), IE and Safari to Q2.

I'd be most interested in your views.

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Ian Osgood

Roger Withnell wrote:

Thanks for all the comments on this.

I like to idea of testing on Firefox and IE. But what about Apple
Macintosh? Is it necessary to test on Safari also? Don't want to make a
significant investment unnecessarily (ie an Apple Mac).

The new MacMini is not too expensive ($500) and is targeted at the
cross-platform developer.

That said, Safari is based on the KHTML engine (including KJS) used by
Konqueror in KDE. Maybe it would be cheaper to install Linux in a
partition and test with that.

Ian

Oct 11 '05 #11

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