How much do you worry about firefox or netscape?

Ok, of the browsers that are rarely used, firefox holds down the lead with under 5% usage on the averate. For my site, it was holding its own with 4.9% of the market, but has gradually dropped to 4.2%.

I just added netscape to this thread because I didnt want to leave them out. They have almost zero existance within my site.

Now, I know these browsers all act differently, so, do you concentrate on making sure your site is 100% compliant with them all, or do you concentrate on Explorer and not worry about the rest?

 

I work on getting my sites to display properly in multiple browsers.

 

I always check my sites with Opera, IE and Firefox

 

IE is important for now until FF overtakes them. Until then, my concentration is on both IE & FF.

 

SportsOutlaw, my personal view is that I find it very difficult to come to terms with people who do not develop with the intention of been 100% compliant.

Unless it is for an internal intranet within a company who has one browser installed and one browser only on their network then I cannot understand people who say "X browser is important and Z browser isn't".

I did a rant named "To Dream, Weave or Read the Front Page?" a while back (forums.iwdn.net/viewtopic.php?t=331) and it touched upon browser compatibility breafly. Here is a quote from the rant...

As you can see that is mainly pointed at Frontpage but I am sure you understand the browser issue.

 

I far as I am concerned, it dose not mater what you use to code your pages as long as before you publish, you validate your work.

http://validator.w3.org/

 

Personally I worry about Firefox first since that's what I use. However it's good to note that if it looks good in Firefox it should look the same in Mozilla, Netscape and Safari. IE is actually the issue since their browser does whatever it wants. I don't hate IE, I hate it's lack of standards.

 

From what I see in my web logs, IE should be far most important! I use IE and most of the people I know use it too...

 

The number of people who use Fire Fox on my sites really keep increasing. My guess is those are the people who know the most about website design and would probably me the most aggrivated it something doesn't work too.

 

It's really not that hard to make sites that work well on all the browers, and it is good practice to do so. If you only make sure a site works in IE, then you are really telling all Mac users to bugger off

 

I use Fire Fox and definitely check for it. I have about a 7-10% for Fire Fox on many of my stats. I develop for IE as welll, and make sure it looks ok in Safari since I have a Mac Ibook as well.

Most of my sites are built using CSS (excluding my Amazon stores) and I have long since developed an inventory of stylesheets that work well and I reuse.

 

CSS together with xHTML makes a good combination for great browser compatible, speedy and overall neat Designs.

However, If you're looking to target just one browser of all, that would be the most used browser - IE.

 

browsercam.com is good for checking in multiple browsers (and browser versions)

 

I always check my sites in Firefox and IE. It works out pretty well for me, since I develop with Firefox, then when I'm done I "fix it up" so it works in IE too.

Sometimes IE makes me tear my hair out though!

 

Around 10%-12% of the users on my site use firefox. I test my pages in FF and IE and Opera (but I don't know why I bother).

Ross

 

I would say this is a matter of business, is it worth it to you to send away 5-10% of your traffic? I would say that since IE hasnt changed in the last 40 years and due to security issues the % of users is going to be decreasing.

 

Don't know why you bother? If I go to a site that looks like crap with my browser, I just hit the back button. Sure way to loose a customer.

 

I design and test for Firefox, and then rarely adjust for IE - if necessary. Netscrape is inconsequential and doesn't matter anymore...and the new version is a bloated form of Firefox anyway.

 

da22in - I agree the best approach is to design and test in another browser, then adjust IE as necessary. The real kicker here is that soon we will have to design for small footprint screens like blackberries etc...

 

Small footprint = less space to fill & less graphics to make!!!

The glass is half full........