LinkLib: Web Client-side: Browsers
As an HTML author, you need to test on more than one browser to see if your
pages look reasonable. Use Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator (4.x and 6.x)
or Mozilla, and Opera.
- About browsers
- Most browsers are in this list, and there are more than you probably think.
URL: browsers.evolt.org/
- Mozilla Firebird (previously Phoenix) to be called Mozilla Browser
- Description: Uses the same Gecko renderer as Mozilla, but with
lots of excess (eg, email made into separate Thunderbird program) stripped out. This is said to be
the future of Mozilla.
URL: www.mozilla.org/projects/firebird/ for the browser.
URL: http://texturizer.net/firebird/extensions.html for extensions.
- Mozilla
- Description: This is the open-source version that Netscape 6 is based on.
Currently my favorite browser. To be replaced by Phoenix in the future.
URL: www.mozilla.org
- Opera
- Comments: Good, fast browser. The best downloading software I've used.
A must for all web developers to test pages in this browser.
License: Ad-ware or $39 to get ad-free version.
URL: www.opera.com
- Internet Explorer
- Description: Microsoft's browser is good, but others are now in the running.
URL: www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/
- Batik
- ??
- Amaya
- Description: This is an example browser from the World Wide Web
Consortium. It supports some advanced features: XHTML, editing of
HTML source and CSS stylesheets, customizable, .... There is also XML support:
eg, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and MathML (Mathematics Markup Language).
In addition, there is additional printing support, eg, table of contents. Also
available for Unix and WinNT.
Comment: It's slow, and I had some crashes with it. Use with caution.
URL: www.w3c.org/Amaya/
Other browser-related items
- Bookmarklets
- Clever idea of putting JavaScript in a bookmark.
Some very useful little utilities.
URL: www.bookmarklets.com