Browsers

NZQA test its sites against the most common browsers currently available. These include

Group A - full functional testing

Internet Explorer 6.0 (Win32) [Browser users* - 27 %] -
Firefox 1.0+ (Win32) representative gecko based [Browser users* - 0.2%]
Netscape Navigator 4.5/4.7 (Win32) most common non-IE likely to show issues [Browser users* - 0.0%]
Safari 1.2 (Mac OSX) default AppleMac browser (KHTML based); highly standards compliant [Browser users* - 1.4%]
Lynx (any) text only [Browser users* - 0.0%]

Group B - major functionality & spot checking

Internet Explorer 4.0 (Win32) oldest DHTML IE [Browser users* - 0.1%]
Opera 5.11 (any) oldest DHTML Opera [Browser users* - 0.4%]
Internet Explorer 5.5 (Mac OS X) most common IE for Mac [Browser users* - 2.3%]
NetScape 4.0 (Win32) Oldest NS worth bothering about [Browser users* - 0.00%]

Group C - spot checking only

Internet Explorer 5.0 (Win32) 2nd IE (5.5 closer to 6.0) [Browser users* - 2.3%]
NetScape 7.2 (Win32) covers NetScape & Mozilla gecko variants[Browser users* - 0.0%]
Opera 8.5 (any) latest Opera - now free so usage will increase! [Browser users* - 0.4%]
Konquerer 3.2 (Linux) other major KHTML variant [Browser users* - 0.0%]
Blind readers [Browser users* - Unknown]

Outstanding issues

Safari (AppleMac)

Known Issues:

Presentation of html tables over lapping

Your help is appreciated

If you think you have found an issue that is either browser or version-related, we would appreciate your help. Please let us know by contacting the Webmaster.

* Source - NZQA web statistics

Page updated: 12 February 2008