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Does Operating System Matter?

Formerly suffering with tinnitus told recently that it isn’t just good enough to style pages/sites for cross-browser compatibility and for cross-OS compatibility. Can safari on OSX behave differently than safari with Windows Firefox in OSX, Windows, Linux Providing the pages are made using cross web browser standards (valid HTML and CSS) will the OS truly matter To all you professions designers around: Do you employ a windows XP, Vista, Mac pc, and Lunix box against your desk to pay attention to OS compatibility Or does one just have what’s necessary to check the windows. Thanks, Ron indeed, it does issue. yes, I complete have multiple units. At home WHEN I run a MBP together with VMs of Ubuntu and XP. With all the current different variable regarding browsers and operating systems it’s futile to aim testing on almost all. Not only are there to test to get different browsers but also for different produces on each visitor… Not to mention each browser version for the different releases of each one operating system. Its good practice to check it on a common browsers but my advise could be to stick with good coding techniques and also let the user’s field interpret … Continue reading

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