Browser Compatibility
User Agent (browser) appears to be -
MOZILLA on Windows (Gecko based)
SEA MONKEY on Windows (Gecko based)
FIREFOX 2 on Windows (Gecko based)
FIREFOX 2 on OSX/Mac (Gecko based)
FIREFOX 3 on Windows (Gecko based)
CAMINO on OSX/Mac (Gecko based)
DOCZILLA on Windows (Gecko based)
K-MELEON on Windows (Gecko based)
NETSCAPE 8 on Windows (set as Mozilla)
NETSCAPE 8 on Windows (set as IE)
OPERA 9.2 on Windows
OPERA 9.5 on Windows
OPERA 8 on Windows
OPERA 8 on Windows (set as IE)
INTERNET EXPLORER 5 on Windows
INTERNET EXPLORER 6 on Windows
INTERNET EXPLORER 7 on Windows
INTERNET EXPLORER 8 on Windows
KONQUEROR on Linux (WebKit/KHTML based)
SAFARI on OSX/Mac (WebKit based)
SAFARI on Windows (WebKit based)
This web design uses XHTML and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) extensively which provides a more structured layout however the layouts will not be supported in older browsers. Some of the newer browsers can also struggle to interpret the standards in a consistent manner so whilst effort is made to keep breakages to a minimum this is my best shot so far!
All the pages should be XHTML 1.0 Strict and at the moment will be served as text/html - the next step will be to serve the files as application/xhtml+xml with the .xhtml file type using content negotiation on the server.
Special note: IE7 has ClearType font rendition enabled by default. I find this awful on an LCD as the words are fuzzy and lack definition. The setting can be disabled in the Advanced options of IE7.
Design note: The main style sheet used is designed for and works with Mozilla
based browsers. Opera and IE7 largely conform to this style sheet
also. However the CSS engines for IE6 and earlier versions of IE are not
consistent and so require tweaking style sheets.
Minor tweaks for various browsers are also handled in CSS via a browser detection javascript
so some anomalies may occur when javascript is disabled.
Javascript is also used in the photo galleries (Thickbox)
I expect the site to work reasonably well with -
IE 7 (tested)
IE 6 (tested)
IE 5.5 SP2 (tested)
IE 5.01 SP2 (tested)
Mozilla 1.0 - 1.8 (tested on 1.6)
SeaMonkey 1.0 (Mozilla 1.8 - tested)
Mozilla Firefox 1.0/1.5 (tested)
Mozilla Firefox 2.0/3.0 (tested)
Netscape 7.0/7.1/7.2 (not tested but they use Mozilla codebase)
Netscape 8.0 (tested)
Safari 2.0.2 on MacOS X (tested on Tiger 10.4)
Firefox on MacOS X (tested on Tiger 10.4)
Camino 1.6 on MacOS X (tested on Tiger 10.4)
Deepnet Explorer (tested - based on IE)
Konqueror 3.2(Mandrake Move) (tested - linux fonts rough)
Opera 7.21 (tested)
Opera 7.54 (tested)
Opera 8.0 (tested)
Opera 8.5 (tested)(agent id should be set for Opera)
Opera 9.1/9.2/9.5 (tested)
K-Meleon 1.0 (tested - based on Gecko/Mozilla)
Lynx 2.8.3 (tested - not too bad for a text based browser)
Bad bugs -
Major CSS/layout bugs - not supported
IE5 on Mac (not good, CSS links and NAV busted - use FF or Safari)
IE 4.01 (layout busted - can navigate )
NS 4.XX (degraded but useable content available, text nav possible)
Amaya 9.2.2 - (probably excellent for authenticating code but the page rendering barks!)
Probably no hope at all or not tested -
IE 3
Netscape 3.0
Netscape 6.0 (not tested - possibly OK with some bugs maybe)
Opera 3.11/5.0/6.0
Designed for 800 x 600 at least.
