In a perfect world all browsers would be equal, size wouldn't matter, and ice cream would be health food.

But this world isn't perfect so here are a couple of charts to help you try to write web pages for your audience.

Remember not only are their differences between unix, linix, microsoft, opera and netscape but each have differences between their own browsers.

It kind of makes you want that ice cream doesn't it?

Let's check the differenes shall we...

Microsoft Platforms

Key
supported	X
sort-of supported	s
not supported

Macintosh

Macintosh OS 9.x and Below

browsers

java

frames

tables

plug -ins

font size

font color

java script

style sheets

gif89

dhtml

I- Frames

Table color

XML

Explorer 5.5

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Explorer 5.0

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

s

Explorer 4.5

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

s

Explorer 4.0

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Explorer 3.0

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Explorer 2.0

X

X

X

X

X

Mozilla 1.2.1

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Mozilla 1.0

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Netscape 7.0

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Netscape 6.2

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Netscape 6.1

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Netscape 6.0

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Navigator 4.74

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Navigator 4.5

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

Navigator 4.0

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

s

X

X

X

Navigator 3.0

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

s

X

X

Navigator 2.0

X

X

X

X

X

s

X

Navigator 1.1

X

X

Opera 5