Hi I have encountered a serious problem with my site. In firefox the site looks different from ie. So, I wanna ask you if IE is the most accesible browser for web design?
IE is by far the most commonly used browser, however whether it is the most accessible or not, I am not entirely sure. Firefox is available for a free download, so it is (strictly speaking) more accessible, however if you are going to design a site, most people are probably going to be viewing it with IE. It is not unusual for a site to look totally different between the two browsers, which is often because if your code is not 100% correct, the browser attempts to fix it and therefore the two browsers interpret your code in different ways. Hope that helps. Diarmuid
Among the major browsers, IE, Opera, Konqueror/Safari and Firefox, IE is the least supportive of css, and has the buggiest rendering. It is the most used browser, with a market share of about 78%. That's down considerably from even a year ago, but it's still the schoolyard bully. We have to be sure our code works in it, but you'd be foolish to use it as your primary test bed. It is very much easier to create code consistent with the specs as rendered by a modern browser, and then apply a few simple fixes for IE, than it is to code for IE's buggy behavior and try to make it work in the good browsers. At this time, Firefox has the most consistently true-to-the-code rendering. Plus, it has an amazing set of development tools to aid your development process. It is, I believe, the best test browser to use in building the site. cheers, gary
always make sure your page views properly in IE...... the easiest way is to practice coding and keep up-to-date, e.g. make sure it is valid!!
Validity doesn't bode well with IE. IE makes its own rules. My advice is, everytime you check in firefox, check in IE. This way you won't go wrong Hope this helped, Richard
Actually, the best advice is to check in IE 5.5, 6, and 7, as well as Firefox and Opera (and if you can wing it, Konqueror and Safari too) as you go along. Add or change an element, style rule or script, stop and check each. If you find a problem, fix it right away, rather than putting it off. It may sound like a lot of work, but what you're really doing is debugging as you go along. Don't code for "Browser X" then "Check in Browser Y" since you'll cause more problems than you'd solve. Follow my advice above, and you should be fine. And to answer your question, there is no "most accessible" browser because everyone has their own unique browsing habits. But from a designer/developer's point of view, Internet Explorer does cause more headaches than the other browsers do (something I'm sure the pharmaceutical companies love just as much as they love our money).