[thelist] Browsers to Support
Ian Anderson
ian at zstudio.co.uk
Thu Feb 2 05:35:31 CST 2006
ben morrison wrote:
> Generally if you code for firefox you shouldn't have too much work on
> your hands for the mac browsers, safari and firefox display almost
> identically as does later versions of opera. Your main headache will
> be IE 5 for mac - which isn't as bad as you may think as long as you
> hide any IE PC hacks from ie5 mac - or reset them in a IE5mac
> specific stylesheet
What worries me is the different versions of Safari floating about.
It's great that Dave Hyatt has been so diligent in responding to reports
of CSS bugs and that the developers have been addressing them in
updates, but what it means (as far as I understand it) is that
relatively minor differences in version number could mean grossly
different behaviour in certain circumstances. I don't know of specific
cases, but I think I am remembering correctly.
Does anyone have any experience with different versions of Safari? Like,
are there differences like I believe there are, and how does one test
for the differences?
I'm on OS 10.3.something on a Mac I use for testing; can one run
different versions simultaneously if that's required?
The nasty thing about OSX is that it prompts you to install system
updates that change your Safari, potentially invalidating any testing
you have done to that date.
Cheers
Ian
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