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good idea or bad idea?

This deals with web design and development.

I'm tired of having to design for tons of different browsers. Then a new browser comes along and BAM! more browsers I have to check.

What I think should happen is this:

Check a couple different browsers per platform.

For example check safari and something else for mac, check ie and firefox for pc, check konqueror and something else for linux....ect so on and so forth.

however it shouldn't be like this:

we shouldn't have to check several different versions of IE for same platform, we shouldn't have to check several different versions of firefox for same platform, we should just check the latest version of each browser for each platform.

Here's a more detailed explanation in regards to firefox. people should just check the latest version of firefox for pc, the latest version of firefox for mac and that's about it. not 2 versions on each platform, making the total 4 browsers to check. it's too time consuming and a hassle.

And what if the latest version of a browser over-rides previous browser and you can only open the latest version up? then it becomes even more troublesome with work-arounds and a bunch of non-sense.

I say just check the latest version of each browser for each platform.

Posted by leoarce on Jun 19, 2008 in Blab | 2 comments

brannon on Jun 19, 2008

I would much rather code to standards and have browsers be standards-compliant than worry about checking versions. Unfortunately, we're not there yet.

KatieK on Jun 19, 2008

I develop for standards (in Firefox 2 for the next couple weeks), and test/patch for IE6 and IE7. That's all. If a client needs other browers supported, I can add that to the project.