To my web designer friends...

[natbudin]

Note: this question is not so much directed at those of you who make web sites for a living, but at people who make web sites for personal projects outside of work (even if you also make web sites for a living

Comments

[cktraveler]

Only Firefox and IE. Safari and Opera users were rare last I checked, and Lynx users ... making your website Lynx-friendly makes it worse for the vast majority of your users, and I don't think it's still worth it now.

[natbudin]

Yeah, I mostly put "Lynx" in there facetiously, although it's probably not a bad way to make sure your web site is handicapped-accessible, if you have handicapped users (which as far as I know, mine usually don't).

A month or so ago, I would have probably agreed that Safari users are rare... but with the release of the iPhone, they may actually make up a much more substantial portion of the market. I'll be curious to see about that when the new surveys come out.

[tpau]

i i code to fireox and test on IE. i cna't be bothered by safari, i don't know anyone who uses it.

[under_pressure]

same same -- and since ie 7 most incompatability bugs seem fixed.

[natbudin]

Yeah, IE7 seems a lot saner as far as support for W3C standards. I don't know of any easy way to have IE6 and IE7 installed on the same machine (short of VMware or something like that), so if I test on IE at all, it's likely going to be 7.

I figure if you're going to use IE as your primary browser (which, as I said in the post, I strongly disapprove of), you're probably doing it more out of inertia than out of personal choice, and since MS makes it purposely difficult to AVOID an upgrade, you're probably running 7.

[valadil]

Depending on what I'm doing I'll test on elinks. It's mostly just out of curiosity to see how links will handle things rather than because I think it's worth supporting. That and it usually does a better job than IE which isn't even worth looking at.

[vokzal]

Konqueror has become my new favorite browser, so I vote you test it!

[natbudin]

I thought that in general, whatever works in Safari will also work in Konqueror. Is that not the case?

[lisefrac]

Firefox, Safari, and IE. Generally I will only fix things that are out-and-out broken; if they just look *different*, I won't bother. With the newest versions of IE, which actually, yanno, respect the CSS box model, this is much less of an issue.