What browser will output what everyone else will see?

What browser should I dev with?

[ShepMode]

I've been developing websites with an ignorant disregard for browsers other than IE for a couple of years now. I want all that to change, and I'm hoping the solution will be an easy one.

Is there a browser out there that will only support coding features that all other latest release browsers support? So if I do all my testing in this browser, I don't have to bother with any other?

I'm not bothered about supporting browsers such as IE 5, just the latest browsers on the market.

[Eric_Jarvis]

Not really. The answer is changing your process not changing your browser. You need to build from the ground up and only deal with the visual detail at the end. That way dealing with cross browser quirks is fairly trivial. If you develop the design primarily visually rather than conceptually you'll always be hitting situations where you need to tear down a lot of the design to deal with a quirk in browsers you didn't use.

That said. Most people seem to find Mozilla or Opera are the most useful in that respect. They are in general less quirky.

[grahamstewart]

I typically test in Opera 7 because it tends to be the most standards compliant. I then test the code in Mozilla Firefox, Netscape 7, IE6 (and IE5.5 if required).

Make sure you use a full doctype as this will force modern browsers (including IE6) to render in 'Standards Compliant' mode which minimises the differences between browsers.

See [w3.org...] for a list of valid doctypes. I recommend you aim for HTML4.01 Strict.

And be sure to validate all your HTML and CSS with the W3C validators [validator.w3.org] as this will also help to reduce differences.

[R1chard]

Yeah, Opera 7 and Firefox are probably the best two, along with the Amaya, the only official browser.

[Gibble]

until you view it on a mac...then you wonder **** it is that doesn't work quite right