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How far do you go when it comes to browser compatability. I find it time consumming and usually only write for Internet Explorer and Firefox. Do you go the extra step and make sure your sites are Opera (etc) compatible?

I just try to stick to HTML 4.0 and using the DOM in my Javascript. That seems to work with most all browsers. For business sites that need all the bling I then take the extra steps to code browser compatibility but it costs the client. So I do leave that up to the client to set the browser standard.

Johnny

I also leave it as a client option, with more browsers equalling more money.

As much as possible, I try to write valid XHTML and CSS. For publicly visible client sites, I stick to the basics and make sure my sites look acceptable in the major browsers. For my personal stuff, I don't concern myself as much with IE compatability as I do with XHTML/CSS compliance. Without financial incentive, I'm not going to go to any great lengths to accomodate for non standards compliant browsers.

Just IE and mozilla firefox. I don't care about the others.

I thought that mine was most browser compatible, however I found out that it did not work well with firefox! It was a right nightmare, took me ages to fix it!

I find that Netscape, Firefox, and Opera are all on the same build. You just have to worry about the horrible IE.

I find that IE is not that bad in general, I'm more like let's get everyone together and get a standard already. Shesh! Anyways, I only check with IE and Firefox which seems like enough to me.

In the late 90's, when I was making my first site, I was just focusing on developing it for IE and Netscape.

I always write strict XHTML and CSS and JavaScript. I always code compatibility for IE6 and IE7, Firefox 1.5, 2.0 and Opera 9. If I had a Mac I would test for Safari too.

That being said if it is a really cheap client they get a site coded for IE and looks very close to the same in firefox...no time spent on small misalignments, etc.

Actually, I dont develop pages for all browser s. I only care the compatibility in IE and MOZILLA, beacuse if you care too much browser, it cost you time and money