Comments on: Graded Browser Support: Q4 Update

By: Sebastian Comella

Sebastian Comella — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:12:02 +0000

Hello Nate -
Some of my coworkers and I were wondering what techniques you used to block CSS & JS - are you using client-side techniques such as conditional comments, or are you making the decision on the server side and not sending the CSS/JS to the browser at all?

Out of curiosity, we browsed some of the Yahoo sites using “C” grade browsers (IE 5.0 PC on tv.yahoo.com for example) from past charts and found that they still tried to render CSS & JS - with mixed results. I don’t make that point to be critical, I just want to clarify if you are indeed attempting to entirely block CSS/JS from C grade browsers.

Thank you!

By: ROI Guy

ROI Guy — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:35:42 +0000

Can you provide usage data for each of the browsers on the A Grade browser chart?

I would be really useful for executives deciding what version of each browser they needed to support.

I posed this question to a Yahoo Engineer at SES Chicago and he suggested I post it back to your blog. (I forget his name, he was filling in for Tim Mayer). He felt that as the leading property on the Internet, Yahoo! would have a unique perspective on browser utilization and that perhaps you could share it along with the A Grade definitions.

By: Confluence: Product Management

Confluence: Product Management — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 23:03:01 +0000

Browser Support Levels…

Background Krugle supports a number of different broswer/platform combinations. We prioritize browsers by frequency of use or strategic value. The following url explains how yahoo handles this issue….

By: Learning the World » Graded Browser Support Q4 Update

Learning the World » Graded Browser Support Q4 Update — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:39:58 +0000

[…] That’s a very pragmatic and efficient framework since it adds scalability for QA. […]

By: Muneeb

Muneeb — Fri, 24 Nov 2006 06:27:12 +0000

Yahoo! site also reccomends upgrading to IE 7.0. I hope YUI library don’t become specific to IE 7.0 (intentionally or unintentionally) in near future.

By: benewu

benewu — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 12:06:29 +0000

简单得创建JAVASCRIPTE WEB丰富界面以及与JAVA服务互相访问…

简单得创建JAVASCRIPTE WEB丰富界面以及与JAVA服务互相访问…

By: Nate Koechley

Nate Koechley — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 22:16:27 +0000

@Chris: I agree, and we’re making progress.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:04:11 +0000

yahoo.com currently tells newer builds of Safari to “upgrade to a more recent browser”. It would be nice if it didn’t do that.

By: Nate Koechley

Nate Koechley — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:37:00 +0000

@Balakumar Muthu: A-grade browsers are those we test with. Testing has real costs, so keeping the number low is beneficial. Luckily, Netscape shares Firefox’s core Gecko rendering engine, and so while we don’t invest resources to test each page with Netscape, we have a high degree of confidence that the experience will be on par with so-called A-grade browsers.

Thanks,
Nate

By: Balakumar Muthu

Balakumar Muthu — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:34:50 +0000

Why does Netscape have been moved to X-grade, still there are some big communities of users are there for Netscape!

BTW, checkout some of my usability study about the Flickr and Del.icio.us at:

http://i5bala.blogspot.com/2006/11/hello-yahoo-simple-features-or-changes.html

Thanks.