Which browsers are ideal...?

[swmr]

For testing design compatibility, which browsers, beyond the latest versions of Navigator & Explorer, would be a good idea to use?

[brothercake]

My recommendations:

For core testing: moz, opera 7, and ie6

For secondary testing (if you can run them): safari or konqueror, ie5, and a small-screen device like WebTV Viewer or a PDA

For legacy and accessibility testing: netscape 3 and Lynx

[krycek]

Forget Opera

Mozilla, IE6. Lynx. Nothing else is really neccessary.

::] krycek [::

[Nightfire]

Can see this turning into a 'battle of the browsers' thread once again

Mozilla and IE5.5(or maybe6) are the most popular browsers. I found that most ppl that aren't web intelligent only use the browsers that come with their isp. I've never heard of an ISP that comes with Opera or lynx.

[brothercake]

Lynx is useful because it helps you to visualise how non-visual user agents (like search-engine robots and screenreaders) perceive your page.

Opera 7 is sufficiently standards compliant that you don't need to do separate testing, unless you're doing advanced DOM scripting or tinkering with CSS3.

But it has other features useful in a dev browser - you can do excellently cool things like disable stylesheets, or turn off images, from single-click toolbar buttons. And you can send a local file to the W3C validator, from the document context menu.

[krycek]

Originally posted by brothercake
Lynx is useful because it helps you to visualise how non-visual user agents (like search-engine robots and screenreaders) perceive your page.

...exactly

::] krycek [::

[redhead]

i use these browsers for testing:

ie6, moz1, k-meleon.7 (occasionly does wierd things none of the others do...), opera6.05, and netscape4.7 (to bring some humor to my life ... [and fustration... then i learnt that ignoring it is the best thing to do] ) and that lynx emulator thing... grand.

[swmr]

Thank you all for the advice.