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                     Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 00:45:46 -0500
                     From: Eric Durant <eadurant@concentric.net>
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                  Subject: Re: Opera Web Browser VS the Rest
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a carson wrote:
> does it make any sense to design & test sites using Opera since
> anything working on that browser will work OK on IE4 and Netscape?

Unfortunately, that is not true.

> Does this solve the compatibility problem?

I test my Websites in Opera (and Netscape, Internet Explorer, Mosaic and
Lynx), but this does not solve the compatibility problem.  For example,
the 4th generation browsers each support a different subset of CSS.  So,
a page which appears correctly in a non-CSS, or conforming-CSS, browser
still might not appear correctly (and may even be unreadable) in the
more popular browsers.

If I had access to it, I would also test in the AOL browser, as it has
relevant idiosyncrasies.

Eric Durant
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