Best Viewed Without Internet Explorer

I suppose the title should really read “Best Viewed with a Standards Compliant Browser” but too many people don’t know how broken IE really is. Anyway, as you may or may not have noticed, this site doesn’t look very good on at least some Internet Explorer setups. I didn’t know about it myself since I use Linux exclusively. (well, and some OpenBSD)

I don’t intend to fix it since it’s far too much hassle to go to someone else’s house to test it. (This house is an IE-free zone and IE is locked out on the handful of WinXP machines) However, for those people who honestly didn’t know about the alternatives, I’ll list them along with any comments I have. I’ll also list the ones for other platforms just in case you use a non-Windows system and are curious. All links point to their respective browsers’ “Hey, look why I’m great” pages .

Windows:
* Amaya (Created by the W3C themselves as a demonstration/test platform for new standards. I’ve been meaning to use this to test my pages since it’s the most standards-compliant browser around.)
* Dillo (Missing a lot of the web features but it’s REALLY small and fast.)
* K-Meleon (Uses the Gecko rendering engine from Mozilla but gets a speed boost from strategic use of native Windows components)
* Mozilla (Good if you’re used to the old Netscape Communicator but it’s being phased out in favor of FireFox and Thunderbird)
* Mozilla FireFox (My cross-platform browser of choice.)
* Netscape Communicator (Nowadays, little more than a rebranded version of Mozilla.)
* Opera (Either ad-supported or purchased. Not open-source. I couldn’t get comfortable with it.)

Linux:
* Amaya (Created by the W3C themselves as a demonstration/test platform for new standards. I’ve been meaning to use this to test my pages since it’s the most standards-compliant browser around.)
* Dillo (Missing a lot of the web features but it’s REALLY small and fast.)
* Epiphany (
* Galeon (Uses the Gecko rendering engine from Mozilla but, like Camino for MacOS X, provides a native interface.)
* Konqueror (My other favorite browser. It should be available as part of your Linux distro’s package repository.)
* Mozilla (Good if you’re used to the old Netscape Communicator but it’s being phased out in favor of FireFox and Thunderbird)
* Mozilla FireFox (My cross-platform browser of choice.)
* Netscape Communicator (Nowadays, little more than a rebranded version of Mozilla.)
* Opera (Either ad-supported or purchased. Not open-source. I couldn’t get comfortable with it.)

MacOS X: (I don’t own a Mac so I can’t test Mac-only stuff)
* Amaya (Created by the W3C themselves as a demonstration/test platform for new standards. I’ve been meaning to use this to test my pages since it’s the most standards-compliant browser around.)
* Camino (Uses the Gecko rendering engine like FireFox does but also has the MacOS X look and feel.)
* Dillo (Missing a lot of the web features but it’s REALLY small and fast.)
* iCab (Feature set seems to be similar to Opera or FireFox. Pro version is not free. Not open-source.)
* Mozilla (Good if you’re used to the old Netscape Communicator but it’s being phased out in favor of FireFox and Thunderbird)
* Mozilla FireFox (My cross-platform browser of choice.)
* Netscape Communicator (Nowadays, little more than a rebranded version of Mozilla.)
* Opera (Either ad-supported or purchased. Not open-source. I couldn’t get comfortable with it.)
* Safari (Comes with MacOS X. I’ve heard mixed comments about it.)

Other OSes: (no item is guaranteed but they’re proabably available)
* Dillo (Missing a lot of the web features but it’s REALLY small and fast.)
* Mozilla (Good if you’re used to the old Netscape Communicator but it’s being phased out in favor of FireFox and Thunderbird)
* Mozilla FireFox (My cross-platform browser of choice.)
* Netscape Communicator (Nowadays, little more than a rebranded version of Mozilla.)
* Opera (Either ad-supported or purchased. Not open-source. I couldn’t get comfortable with it.)

I know you can probably find tons of other browsers for Windows but they aren’t listed because every one that I’ve found uses Internet Explorer’s core to do their HTML rendering which means that all of the layout bugs and many of the security holes are still there. If you run something other than one of the above operating systems then look around for ports. For example, FreeBSD and OpenBSD have huge ports collections and package repositories.

Best Viewed Without Internet Explorer by Stephan Sokolow is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.