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If it works in ...

it will work in ...

         

divaone

4:18 pm on Dec 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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If it works in Netscape 7.1
It will work in ... (everything else?)

DrDoc I have heeded IE warnings

tedster

8:03 pm on Dec 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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From what I experience, there's no such hard and fast rule. When different elements get combined in different ways, all sorts of little surprises can crop up cross browser.

More than that, cross PLATFORM rendering can hold some more surprises -- for instance, IE5 on Macintosh is a little devil of a browser! And that combo may be upwards of 6% of your visitors.

Nevertheless, Netscape or Mozilla is a great first development environment. Validated code that looks good there will often need no further work, especially on relatively simple layout.

DrDoc

8:22 pm on Dec 13, 2003 (gmt 0)

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If it works in Mozilla, Opera (6 & 7), IE (5, 5.5 & 6) -- it will work in most other browsers ;)
...provided we're not talking NN4 or IE4 here.

hartlandcat

9:49 pm on Dec 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

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If it works in Lynx, it'll work in everything.

encyclo

12:06 am on Dec 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

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If it works in Mozilla, Opera (6 & 7), IE (5, 5.5 & 6) -- it will work in most other browsers ;)

<?php header("Content-type: application/xhtml+xml");?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">

<head>

<title>Eat this, IE!</title>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

</head>

<body>

<h1>Eat this, IE!</h1>

<p>This will work perfectly in Mozilla, but break in virtually anything else!</p>

<p>So you can <em>never</em> be sure...</p>

</body>

</html>

divaone

12:12 am on Dec 15, 2003 (gmt 0)

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i'd forgotten about lynx! the text browser. hmm good tester.

Harley_m

12:45 am on Dec 16, 2003 (gmt 0)

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despite being happy in every mainstream browser on the market - still doesnt prove anything with webTV/blind browsers... :P

Harley

tobyink

10:42 am on Dec 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

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My general test is. Must work flawlessly in Trident (that is, IE5+ for Windows) and Gecko, almost flawlessly in Opera and KHTML, with content readable and navigation usable in Netscape 4 and Lynx.