Posted by Rick Brandt on 09/12/06 18:12

Travis Newbury wrote:
> Jonathan N. Little wrote:
>> Many would say you have it backwards. Build and view in Firefox (or
>> other modern browser) first then check and tweak if required to fix
>> for IE...
>
> But since IE is STILL the most popular browser I think this way is
> backwards. Make it work in IE (what everyone uses) the tweek for the
> lesser used browsers.
>
> I am NOT saying IE is better, only used more.

Initial testing should be run against the browser that more strictly
conforms to the standards. Then you tweak for the browser that is "wrong".
Popularity doesn't enter into it except that it would take a popular browser
for the second step to be even necessary.

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