[Woodcarver] Web Hosting-browsers (Chat)

[Marcia Berkall]

Great idea, Lori,

I have several browsers installed as well and test all pages in as 
many browsers as possible, starting as you do, with Firefox.
You would think there would be standards from browser to 
browser...but Microsoft...well, ok, I won't go there! :)
Marcia  (aka Mush)

At 02:54 PM 8/4/2009, Loriwrote:

>Marcia,

>On a tangent, but sorta relevant...I have created a niche for myself 

>on some freelancing sites of SPECIALIZING in fixing rendering issues 

>with IE6 (yes some people refuse to quit wanting to design for it), 

>IE7, IE8. And I keep very busy. I have (9) browsers loaded onto my 

>machine and I test and correct for all of them (none are perfect, 

>but some are closer than others). When I do design, I design for 

>Firefox FIRST. Opera, Chrome and Safari will almost always fall into 

>line. THEN I start the process of making the IE's work.  Believe it 

>or not, some folks even want to design for Netscape, still. It's a 

>double edged sword for me...while for myself, refusing to design for 

>outdated browsers will force folks to upgrade to at least a newer 

>version of whatever browser they are currently using, I freelance in 

>correcting the issues for these very browsers :-). As long as it 

>pays the bills, I'll keep doing it...BUT, I try to educate my 

>clients on the advantages of designing for the later, standards 

>compliant versions. personally I can't understand folks not 

>upgrading to the latest versions of their current browser. It's 

>relatively painless these days. There WAS a time, however when, even 

>though I use Firefox, and have almost since its inception, I 

>wouldn't load it onto my Mom's computer...though a better browser in 

>many respects, it did have it's usability issues - ironically with 

>upgrading. But I wouldn't hesitate to load it onto her machine now.

>Lori


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