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Jan 7, 2010

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Dean Buckfield commented on Dean Buckfield's blog post Limited web design testing

"I am glad I am not the only one seeing it this way. Where I work, they have several pages/sites that only really work in a straightforward manner in IE6. Some parts require changes to the security settings to work in IE7/8, which the average user…"

Jan 3, 2010

Chris Davis commented on Dean Buckfield's blog post Limited web design testing

"I would agree with this statement about IE, but only because it's a mistake I've made myself. All of the sites I've created over the years were only tested in IE, which displayed them as I intended - however, once I tested both of the…"

Jan 3, 2010

Gerald Hornsby commented on Dean Buckfield's blog post Limited web design testing

"I had an issue recently when a site I'd designed worked in Safari, Firefox, Opera & Chrome, but not in IE. "Blithering IE" I muttered. Eventually I found that I hadn't closed a CSS argument properly. The other browsers seemed…"

Jan 2, 2010

Dave Cooper commented on Dean Buckfield's blog post Limited web design testing

"I like to test my code with w3c's validator. If we all wrote compliant code and if (only!) ms wrote a compliant browser the world would be hunky-d! ;-). Dave (Have to admit, IE8 is better that the previous offering)"

Jan 2, 2010

Harvey Raybould commented on Dean Buckfield's blog post Limited web design testing

"Hi Dean, Your comments are very true and are a common mistake made by many web designers, professional or amateur. In a great deal of countries now Internet Explorer is not the most popular browser anymore, so it is very important for web sites, to…"

Jan 2, 2010

Dean Buckfield posted a blog post

Limited web design testing

This is only a short message for all those web designers who do not test their sites fully, not everyone uses, or wants to be forced to use IE. If your site does not work in the most standards compliant browser, Opera, then you are doing something wrong. I am a touch fed up with sites that only work in IE. After all I shop online with Opera, so if your site does not work, I do not buy.

Jan 1, 2010

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