Thread: Browser compatibility issues

I'm actually going to have to disagree. Ideally all markup should validate to W3C standards, but ideally all browsers would be compliant. Unfortunately, they aren't.

Firefox started advertising itself as "the way the web is meant to be seen" LONG before it even passed the Acid 2 test. Consequently, most of its users thought they were using a standards-compliant browser, but actually they were far from it and many sites using valid markup looked awful in Firefox.

The most important factor is that your website works as intended in all browsers. On some occasions, that actually might require breaking some of the W3C's recommendations. But validating your code is priority 2.

There really is no shortcut around testing all the browsers you can get your hands on. Prioritize supporting the browsers that are most popular with your visitors, and if you see an unusual user-agent string, just Google it and see what you can find about what it supports and what devices it runs on.

Keep in mind, even Google's homepage doesn't validate properly, but I assure you they've done plenty of usability testing.

When we are designing we always work out FF first, than most of all browsers fall inline with just a few tweaks. IE is an entire different development structure. I am done supporting IE 6 all we do now is 7 and 8

Originally Posted by Johngalt

When we are designing we always work out FF first, than most of all browsers fall inline with just a few tweaks. IE is an entire different development structure. I am done supporting IE 6 all we do now is 7 and 8

That's pretty dangerous IMO. Do your clients know you are cutting off atleast 10% of their customers?