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When you are working on a new website, what combinations of browsers and operating systems do you target, and at what priorities? Do you find targeting a few specific combinations (and ignoring the rest) better than trying to strive to make them all work as intended?
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Mainly I just target browsers as the sites I’ve built don’t really depend on anything OS specific. As mentioned above, YAHOO’s graded browser support guide is a good starting point on determining which browsers yous should/could support. And Yahoo’s User Interface library (CSS+JavaScript) helps massively in achieving this.
But when developing sites I primarily do it on Firefox2 as it has the best web developing tools (firebug + wed developer toolkit). Then I also test my sites with Opera 9.5 as it’s my browser of choice for browsing. I’ve previously lost all hope on supporting IE6 at any reasonable level so these days I just inform my users to upgrade to IE7 which is almost capable of displaying sites similarly to FF2/3+Chrome+Opera.
FF3 and Chrome are so new at the moment that I tend to ignore them, but I must say: They’re friggin fast! My javascript/css heavy sites are noticeably faster with them.