A Microsoft-produced
developer toolbar is available for version 7 of Internet Explorer; it??™s available from
www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=
e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&displaylang=en.
Opera
Full name: Opera.
Initial year of release: 1996 (first public release).
OS: Windows, Mac OS X, Mac OS, Linux, BeOS, Solaris, and others.
Website: www.opera.com/.
Market share estimate: Under 2%.
Trend: Stable.
Engine: Presto.
Compliance: Excellent. Passes Acid2, making it an excellent alternative to Firefox
for a development base.
Comments: Starting life as a research project for a Norwegian telecom company,
Opera has grown into a feature-packed, standards-compliant browser. Its innovative
features??”some of which are of direct benefit to developers??”often lead its
rivals, although the browser has been hampered over the years by a cluttered and
superficially complex interface, and the browser for a long time identifying itself as
Internet Explorer. Because of this, market share figures for Opera were??”and
indeed possibly still are??”artificially low. However, in terms of reach, Opera has
plenty of potential: there are versions of the browser for a massive range of
systems, including for handheld devices. A developer toolbar is available from
www.operawiki.info/WebDevToolbar.
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Safari
Full name: Safari.
Initial year of release: 2003.
OS: Mac OS X, Windows.
Website: www.
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