Nickoo Shore

man, i told you when we talk, i hate ie from the bottom of my hearth.

From stat i have, IE user is about 80.22% and firefox is about 17.2%, opera is about 1.2% and safari is 0.92%.

It depends on how Internet savvy most of the users on a site are. Internet savvy users tend to use Firefox. But if you are implementing a design for a women’s magazine you should really set IE6 as your primary browser.

I keep IE7 on standalone for now, but in a couple of months I should switch IE6 with IE7: IE7 default IE browser and IE6 in standalone mode.

There’s a saying in webdesign: “Don’t forget Opera” since there seems to be a very (fanatic) group of people which absolutely adore Opera and all the slick buttons. Also, most PDA users keep Opera on default browser.

And since MacBooks are becoming more and more popular you should always have a Safari check every once in a while too.

A very good tool I use is BrowserShots (http://browsershots.org/)

You can also use MultipleIEs (made by TredoSoft) which will allow you to install any version of IE from 3-7. Really all you need is IE6 and IE7 though. But it does come in handy for me, I use it hundreds of times a day so I know the frustration when it comes to getting things to work for ie6.

Since IE7 has come out things are a little better but they still aren’t perfect. A good thing to remember is to ensure that your web site is XHTML Compliant to the W3’s standards (HTML tidy isn’t really enough).

I would also check on Safari because a lot of Mac owners use this browser. If you have Windows, you can still install a Safari browser (it is a Beta version, but still works great!) Macs are growing in market share, and as they do, Safari will be more and more popular.

I use vista. Therefore I have IE7 and firefox installed, but I cannot check my designs on IE6. Is there anyway to install IE6 on vista?

I don’t know if that’s possible…