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Law.com: No excuse not to test websites in Opera and Firefox

Published September 11th, 2007 10:57 AM EDT By Daniel Goldman

From an article on Law.com:

“There is no excuse for failing to design Web sites that are compatible with all major browsers. Sure, IE continues to command the bulk of the market. But why would a firm exclude users of other browsers, particularly when it is the more tech-savvy users who opt out of IE? This is the problem with the careers page on the Web site of Patton Boggs. It works fine in IE, but try to open the page in Firefox and it comes up as a screenful of black. Switch to Opera and you get the same. Did no one at Patton ever test this page in a browser other than IE?”

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  1. 1 pinoy_ako Sep 11th, 2007 at 11:11 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    hmmm the said site works on my 9.5 alpha perfectly

  2. 2 Steffen Sep 11th, 2007 at 11:30 am
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    Yep, works as a charm in kestrel :)

  3. 3 Tiberium Sep 11th, 2007 at 11:46 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    Opened fine for me and I’m using Opera 9.23.

  4. 4 Benjamin Sep 11th, 2007 at 11:51 am
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    Doesn’t work for me using 9.23.

  5. 5 Alvin Sep 11th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Linux Linux

    Opera staff: This site accessable with Opera 9.23 on RH 9 linux; site uses actrive-x controls with flash. We use the Abobe flash 9r48 plugin. Page responded to activation and loaded correctly including the audio. Page obviously designed for IE 6 or 7.

  6. 6 Daniel Goldman Sep 11th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.50 on Windows Windows XP

    That site seems to be working for me now as well. When I wrote this post, it didn’t work in Opera 9.5 alpha.

    Alvin, neither Opera nor Firefox (and Safari) support Active-X. It is even disabled by default in the lastest IE7.

  7. 7 EC Sep 11th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
    using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Windows Windows XP

    even works in FF

  8. 8 Steve Barker Sep 11th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.10 on Linux Linux

    Works in 9.23 and 9.1 (both LInux). I’d try the Wii, but someones bought Resident Evil so it will be busy for a few weeks!

    In general there seem to be less and less problem sites.

  9. 9 FataL Sep 11th, 2007 at 4:44 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    And some books have “great” suggestions about Opera support.

  10. 10 DMXell Sep 11th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Mac OS Mac OS X

    Works for me in Opera 9.23 and Firefox on Mac OS X (10.4.10)

  11. 11 Thess Sep 13th, 2007 at 3:21 pm
    using Opera Opera 9.23 on Windows Windows XP

    can’t someone just make a widget who makes us able to use ie inside opera (there is a gadget to be found for firefoxusers; ie tab I think it’s called, so it shouldn’t be impossible;P) ? it sure would make my life a lot easier :P

  12. 12 Steve Barker Sep 13th, 2007 at 6:00 pm
    using Opera Opera 5.0 on Mac OS Mac OS

    Must be using this version of Opera!

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