<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Much appreciated folk for all the feedback and pointers. I have learned so much.<br><br>many thanks to all<br><br>Cheers<br><br>Mo<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Tim Williams <T.M.Williams@cs.bham.ac.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> West Midlands PHP User Group <phpwm@mailman.lug.org.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, 3 August, 2010 10:36:19<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Phpwm] Alternative browsers<br></font><br>On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Simon Emms wrote:<br><br>> For the record, I quite like
IE8. IE6 is a pain in the arse and I refuse to<br>> support it<br><br>I write quite a lot of complex javascript and have yet to notice the difference between IE 6 and IE 8, every javascript bug/problem I have had with IE 6 still seems to be present on IE 8.<br><br>> Good way of testing multiple OS's (and, by extension, browsers) is using Sun<br>> Virtual Machine. Which is frS<br><br>I have 3 real computers, one of which also has vmware to provide a variety of test setups, primarily because I do a lot of stuff with plugins which needs extra testing. I've also started testing on mobile browsers, in my case the one that comes with Symbian S60 5th edition (which is what I have on my phone).<br><br>If you are only doing straight web pages, then all you should need is IE + Firefox + W3C validator. I use the firefox HTML validator extension :<br><br><a href="http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/"
target="_blank">http://users.skynet.be/mgueury/mozilla/</a><br><br>which is highly reccomended. If the pages validate, they should work on everything, although the IE check is still necessary.<br><br>Tim W<br><br>-- Tim Williams BSc MSc MBCS - Euromotor Autotrain<br>Web : <a href="http://www.autotrain.org" target="_blank">http://www.autotrain.org</a><br>Tel : +44 (0)121 414 2214 (ext 42214 on internal phone)<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Phpwm mailing list<br>Website : <a href="http://www.phpwm.org" target="_blank">http://www.phpwm.org</a><br>Twitter : <a href="http://www.twitter.com/phpwm" target="_blank">http://www.twitter.com/phpwm</a><br>Facebook: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2361609907" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2361609907</a><br><br>Post to list: <a ymailto="mailto:Phpwm@mailman.lug.org.uk" href="mailto:Phpwm@mailman.lug.org.uk">Phpwm@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>Archive etc :
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