In article <1147967382.893094.111390@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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google@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I hope this is on-topic for this group...
Yep, much better ;)
> I am a web designer, and have
> just bought a Mac so that I can test my sites on Mac browsers.
That can be useful. I do hope you realise though that it's way more
im****tant to write at the *very least* valid HTML. Without that, testing
what different browsers make up is a waste of time.
The one exception is iCab 3, which has a built-in HTML/CSS and
Javascript checker[*]. See <http://icab.de/>.
(Paying users have access
to much newer 3.0 beta's which has progressed a *lot* since the current
public beta. It now sup****ts CSS' text-shadow, for instance -- and
better than Safari.)
> I have
> OSX 10.2, which has IE5.2 and Safari 1.0 (v85). Do people here use any
> other browsers?
People *here* are not respresentatve of the general Mac population,
which is as oblivious of Usenet as the rest of the world ;)
I think most Mac OS X users by now run Mac OS X 10.3 or newer, which
means they're also using a more up to date version of Safari. If I were
you I'd upgrade to at least Mac OS X 10.3 (and then to 10.3.9). Whether
you can go to Mac OS X 10.4 will depend a bit on your hardware. Try
<news:comp.sys.mac.system> if you need help with that.
My impression is that most Mac OS X users use Safari, followed by
Firefox, Opera, iCab and lynx/links. (I'm ignoring OmniWeb, Camino,
Mozilla, etc. because they all use a rendering engine that's already
covered by the first list.)
[*] Note that I don't call it a validator.
--
Sander Tekelenburg, <http://www.euronet.nl/%7Etekelenb/>
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