Cross Browser Checking
Monday, August 31st, 2009 Resources by BrenigCross browser checking is a must when building a website.
We currently as a standard only check against major browsers. There are 100’s of different browsers out there and all are at different stages of technology. As of 2009 the current most popular browsers are the following.
Provided here by w3c schools
Browser Statistics Month by Month
| 2009 | IE7 | IE6 | IE8 | Firefox | Chrome | Safari | Opera |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July | 15.9% | 14.4% | 9.1% | 47.9% | 6.5% | 3.3% | 2.1% |
| June | 18.7% | 14.9% | 7.1% | 47.3% | 6.0% | 3.1% | 2.1% |
| May | 21.3% | 14.5% | 5.2% | 47.7% | 5.5% | 3.0% | 2.2% |
| April | 23.2% | 15.4% | 3.5% | 47.1% | 4.9% | 3.0% | 2.2% |
| March | 24.9% | 17.0% | 1.4% | 46.5% | 4.2% | 3.1% | 2.3% |
| February | 25.4% | 17.4% | 0.8% | 46.4% | 4.0% | 3.0% | 2.2% |
| January | 25.7% | 18.5% | 0.6% | 45.5% | 3.9% | 3.0% | 2.3% |
We provide for free a check against the top 2 browsers in use at the time of a website build. As of today that is FireFox and IE7.
There is another service that is free if you want to check you site against many browsers at once
Browsers Shots located here http://browsershots.org/ will give a free screen shot from many browsers and could be use full when checking a site view for your site.
Hope you have found this usefull
Brenig