Re: Webservice for simulation of webpages views in different browser software?

At 16:11:31 on Thu, 14 Jan 2010, Bill Braun <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in <yMKdnYjiAuz1FdLWnZ2dnUVZ_hGdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

The question that occurred to me, in the spirit of Osmo's eloquent question, is, what does it matter if a page renders differently in different browsers? I make this assumption (which may not be true) - most people use one browser. As such, they will not know what it looks like in other browsers. So, what does it matter?

If all browsers complied with the standards, it wouldn't matter. The reason for checking a site in different browsers is because of their glitches.

For instance, yesterday I fell foul of the IE7 italics bug - I had a navigation menu down the left-hand side, with some text to the right of it which included one line in italics. IE7 downright refused to recognise any links in the navigation list which were farther down the page than the level of that italic line. (Setting over-flow:auto on the text fixed it, as it seems to fix most manifestations of that bug.)

If I hadn't checked the site in IE7, I wouldn't have anticipated that bug, and IE7 users would not have been able to access the whole of the navigation menu.
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