What browser do you devs use?

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Re: What browser do you devs use?

Post by kieroth_whiteleaf »

It definitely depends on the website.

I work as a contractor for both a school and a bank (among others).

In the school, teachers aren't allowed to install their own software - so until we started installing Mozilla on their systems in addition to IE, there was like 98% page views on the district home site (where the email and student data services links are) from IE. The stray 2% were people getting into things from home, often with netscape or safari.

Now that we've installed mozilla and done some basic training on it, it's shifted to closer to 65%/33% IE/Mozilla.

At the bank, most of the devs (who do an insane number of page refreshes) and a lot of the tellers use Mozilla. Since employees are the main people who use site resources, IE accounts for less than 50% of page views.

So it's pretty relative. On my main website it's mostly mozilla with a lot of IE because the staff members primarily like mozilla better. My main tech uses safari, so there's a lot of that as well. Most of my client traffic is mozilla and IE.

*I* think that if a site is coded well for mozilla, IE and safari you're probably okay because those are the main ones, but two years ago I wouldn't have said anything for mozilla at all.

Stuff changes.

Obviously, good page design would say that you stick to standards well enough that it doesn't *MATTER* what browser you use, but most sites (phpBB included) do a good job of keeping it looking alright no matter what.

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Re: What browser do you devs use?

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My personal opinion:

If a page is XHMTL 1 compliant and it looks wrong in a particular browser, then the flaw is with the browser.
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Re: What browser do you devs use?

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grrrlromeo wrote:My personal opinion:

If a page is XHMTL 1 compliant and it looks wrong in a particular browser, then the flaw is with the browser.
i agree :D

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Re: What browser do you devs use?

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But then if the browser devs don't fix it, I think phpBB has to fix it, if not, it (phpBB) would receive bad press even if its not their fault, and put many people down. That's my opinion.

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Re: What browser do you devs use?

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I think this whole discussion is somewhat irrelevant to phpBB given we clearly strive to ensure consistent look and feel across browsers.

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Re: What browser do you devs use?

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The difference is there in Firefox compared to IE/Opera.

http://home.pacific.net.sg/~furrypandy/fflook.PNG" target="_blank to see what I mean.

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trenzterra wrote:The difference is there in Firefox compared to IE/Opera.

http://home.pacific.net.sg/~furrypandy/fflook.PNG" target="_blank to see what I mean.
When were you told to report bugs? ;) Believe me, a great chunk of the phpbb team members are using Firefox.
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Re: What browser do you devs use?

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Is this considered bug reporting? I dunno, never heard of bugs before in HTML. It's good to know that they use Firefox then.

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trenzterra wrote:The difference is there in Firefox compared to IE/Opera.

http://home.pacific.net.sg/~furrypandy/fflook.PNG" target="_blank to see what I mean.

You know, just dusted IE off from under all then old folders. Didn't know that was a bug, just tought it was still be worked on.
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