Firefox 2.0 released
Oh, for crying out loud…Firefox 2.0 released.
Let us pose the serious question. How many browsers do we developers need to cross-test in? Here’s the short list…(IMHO):
FF1.5, FF2.0, IE6, IE7, Safari 1.3 - and soon, Safari 2.0 (or whatever ships with Leopard)
Others might want to add Opera to this list (though I don’t). What’s the transition for us? Do we really need to test in all of these for the interim? Given that the updates will be mostly automatic for the recent builds (IE7 via Automatic Updates, for example) then what is the timeframe for the increased testing spectrum? I wonder if there is a user agent list we can sift through over time that can tell us what the penetration is for each of these browser versions for the coming months. That would be most helpful.
October 25th, 2006 at 8:26 am
I have a feeling that we will be dealing with IE 6 for a very long time as many large corporations and Government agencies will take a long time to shift to IE 7. Years. The Firefox 1.x -> 2.x time frame should prove interesting as that is a mixed audience, geeks like us who use it because we love it and like to be on the cutting edge, and folks like our parents and friends that we’ve set up with FF, or happened to have heard about it and given it a whirl.