Browser Support
By Doug Williams on April 19, 2010
We get a lot of questions asking what browsers we support or how do we keep track of so many browsers. Truth is, there are too many browsers to support all of them. From AOL to w3m all told there are approximately 30 browsers, not counting mobile. So, how do we pick which browsers to support?
We support A-grade browsers browsers for the following systems:
| Win XP | Win 7 | Mac 10.51 | Mac 10.61 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firefox 3.01 | A-grade | |||
| Firefox 3.61 | A-grade | A-grade | A-grade | |
| Chrome 4.01 | A-grade | |||
| IE 8.0 | A-grade | A-grade | ||
| IE 7.0 | A-grade | |||
| IE 6.0 | A-grade | |||
| Safari 4.01 | A-grade | A-grade |
1 The most-current non-beta version at that branch level which receives support.
This is taken from the YUI Graded Browser support guide. It is the most straight-forward list of popular and (”/or” is a required addition in the case of Internet Explorer which is not compliant, although IE8 is an improvement toward standards compliance).
This covers over 95 percent of the browser market, with Opera – a standards compliant browser – eating up the majority of the remainder.
It is important to note that IE (in all three of its lovely varieties), while still in the majority, is now on less than two-thirds of the computers viewing the web. So when picking a web design firm, make sure they design for both web standards compliant browsers AND the non-compliant IE.
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