Firefox?!?!

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creospace

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    Firefox is another web browser like Internet explorer. One of the key differences is that fire fix renders the web content correctly where as internet explorer does not.

    The problem is that Internet explorer plan to fix this problem with the next release and thus all the sites that were built to look great in internet explorer will suddenly look not so good.

    Any web designer worth his salt these days will build sites to a set standard that validates and so the content should be cross browser compatible.

    That’s cutting a lot of stuff out to make it understandable for you Mark. Hope it helps. Feel free to get in touch for further advice.

    Gary
     
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    kyber

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    creospace said:
    Firefox is another web browser like Internet explorer. One of the key differences is that fire fix renders the web content correctly where as internet explorer does not.

    The problem is that Internet explorer plan to fix this problem with the next release and thus all the sites that were built to look great in internet explorer will suddenly look not so good.

    Any web designer worth his salt these days will build sites to a set standard that validates and so the content should be cross browser compatible.

    That’s cutting a lot of stuff out to make it understandable for you Mark. Hope it helps. Feel free to get in touch for further advice.

    Gary
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    Although firefox is generally more compliant with W3 standards than the current release of Internet Explorer, there are things that it gets wrong. Also, some of the standards are so open to interpretation that no browser can be said to be definitively correct. The new version of Internet Explorer, currently under test, although an improvement on the current version does not resolve all of the current accepted problems. Firefox is an open source browser that is to say that the software is written by a community of cooperating developers and that the raw code is available for anyone to inspect, alter (if they want to) and compile to suit any particular computer environment.

    Firefox has, at the time of writing, more outstanding security holes than the current version of Internet Explorer. For a while firefox was recommended as a better alternative because it was less insecure but as the uptake of firefox has increased there has been more interest from the delvelopers of software that exploits security weaknesses in targetting firefox directly. Another browser worth checking things out in (and now available for free) is Opera. This browser is also widely used in a steadily increasing number of alternative devices including many mobile phones.

    Finally, consider looking at your website using simple text browsers. Several websites will give you a text view. This is representative both of the way than many search engines (including Google) see your website and also what some people using accesibility aids may be "seeing".

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    In all honesty, it's not worth worrying about browsers which have less than a 5% market share. I remember the days of testing sites using IE3 on the Mac and it was pointless for such a tiny minority of users. The stats below are taken from www.w3schools.com and show that Opera have less than 2% share. IE and Firefox are the bad boys and it's by time well spent testing your site on those two.

    2005 October
    IE 6 - 67.5%
    IE 5 - 6.0%
    Firefox - 19.6%
    Mozilla - 2.6%
    NN7 - 0.4%
    Opera 8 - 1.2%
    Opera 7 - 0.2%
     
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