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Paco Loco · Oct 11, 2006, 08:05 AM

I work on the dev team of a complex web-based application which until recently was used exclusively by Windows users running IE.
As the app contains a lot of sophisticted JavaScript, DHTML and CSS we do a lot of testing on all different versions of Windows IE to make sure that it looks and works 100% as intended.

We recently rolled out the system to our first batch of Mac users who are running Safari v1.0.3 on OSX 10.2.8
Again we did a lot of testing on this platform to ensure everything worked.

So now I am wondering how many different versions of Safari I realistically need to be testing on going forward, as the new users could potentially upgrade their machines at any time.
Should I be testing on Safari v2 as well? How about the incremental versions in between? Are there really likely to be any differences between the Safari versions in terms of how JS/DHTML/CSS are implemented (as there are in IE)? Any advice/experiences you would care to share on this subject would be appreciated.

Mithras · Oct 11, 2006, 08:25 AM

I'd check Safari v1, and the newest Safari. I think most users fall into one camp or the other.

Paco Loco · Oct 11, 2006, 08:36 AM

True.
Unfortunately we have to guarantee the compatibility of our application on all versions of Safari since v1.0.3 so I am worried that this may not be enough...