Testing method

by Joe Gillespie — Sep 1, 2002

Each of the twenty pages of the site was viewed in the various browsers three times over a period of one week and then given the following scores. The best possible score is twenty times five (100). Except for minor tweaks and avoiding some known browser bugs as mentioned above, no attempt was made to cater for substandard CSS rendering.

5 – for a perfectly rendered page

4 – near perfect rendering but minor cosmetic glitches

3 – rendered but with elements in the wrong place

2 – broken, but readable

1 – too badly broken to be of any use

As Mozilla 1.x (Mac and PC) and Netscape 7 produced identical results, only one is included.

Mozilla 1.x/Netscape 7 (All)
Features	100%

Explorer 5.1.5 (Mac)
Ease of Use	99%

Explorer 6.0 (Win)
Value for Money	98%

Explorer 5.5 (Win)
'Must Have' Factor	97%

Opera 6.05 (Win)
Features	89%

iCab Preview 2.8.1 (Mac)
Ease of Use	50%

Netscape 4.78 (Mac)
Value for Money	45%

Note: The scores shown only relate to the pages tested and should not be interpreted as general perfomance.

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