web page testing with K-Meleon

[Andrew Mutch]

Just for clarification, most anything that works in Mozilla will work in
K-Meleon. They both are powered by the Gecko layout engine and so most page
rendering is handled in exactly the same way. Occasionally, there are
variations, depending upon which version of the respective browser you are using
and what kind of page tricks the web site is trying to perform. Many web
designers prefer to use K-Meleon for their testing of how pages will render in
Mozilla because it K-Meleon has a much smaller in footprint than Mozilla.

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
Waterford Township Public Library
Waterford, MI

"Drew, Bill" wrote:

>  I like Chris' choice of musicians to illustrate the points being made.
>
> My plan is now to support browsers versions as follows:
>
> 1) IE4 and hgher (priority of IE5 and higher)
> 2) Opera 6.0 and higher
> 3) Mozilla 1.0 and higher
> 4) Netscape 4.7x and higher with support to disappear for versions lower
> than 5 as time goes on.
> 5) Lynx, latest version
> 6) K-meleon (?) as long as it works.
>
> I have looked at our server logs over the last year at different times and
> 90% of our traffic is for IE5 and higher.  This is because 90% of our
> traffic is from on our campus where our standard was IE5 and is now IE6.
>
> As many of you know, we are an IBM Thinkpad University campus.  Over two
> thirds of our students will have IBM ThinkPad laptops this fall running
> Windows XP with the latest version of IE and all of the latest plugins.
> Those that don't have laptops have access to computer labs all around campus
> to the latest versions of Windows and IE.
>
> Bill Drew
> drewwe at morrisville.edu