Modern Browsers?

Take a look at this article by Faruk Ates. He discusses modern browsers in a quite rational way. Here is his definition:

A modern browser is any browser that: successfully renders a site that you just built using web standards, testing only in your browser of choice along the way, with all the essentials functioning well; without you having written any browser-specific hacks, forks or workarounds; and shows great performance as you navigate it.

I like it. Dealing with browsers is one of the major hassles in web development. This can be especially true if you are forced to support ancient, non-standard browsers like IE6 (the punch-card of browsers).

I especially agree with his statement "successfully renders a site . . . using web standards". As long as you are developing to approved web standards, the site you just created and tested using Chrome should render accurately in the production version of Safari or Firefox or Opera or IE. The key is developing to web standards. If you go beyond this to the cutting edge, all bets are off.

Take a look at his well thought out article. If you develop for the web, you'll enjoy it.