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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Mobile Web Browsers 3 Market Share 4 Browser Analysis 5 Browser Testing Tools 6 Non-mobile Analysis

Introduction

This page is a kick off for a record of device web browser compatibility and rendering issues here, pulling together all resources we can find and adding in a few of our own.

Mobile Web Browsers

• BlackBerry Internet Service Browser→ mobile web browser on RIM BlackBerry devices
• Blazer Web Browser→ Palm OS Web Browser (before the Pre)
• Fennec→ mobile web browser version of Firefox
• Internet Explorer Mobile→ Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile phones
• NetFront Browser→ (3.5) mobile web browser from Access
• Nokia WAP Browser→ default WAP browser on many Nokia devices
• Openwave Mobile Browser→ mobile web browser from Openwave being phased out
• Opera Mini→ (4.2) free mobile web browser built on Java ME, supporting many devices
• Opera Mobile→ (4.2) free mobile web browser that provides a PC-like browsing experience
• Skyfire→ PC-like browsing on your mobile
• WebKit→ open source web browser engine
  • Android Web Browser→ Android integrated browser based on the open source WebKit engine
  • Safari→ Safari (WebKit) browser on iPhone
  • Web Browser for S60→ WebKit port for the Nokia S60 platform
  • WebOS Web Browser→ web browser on Palm's webOS (starting with Palm Pre)

Market Share

See GlobalStats StatCounter for analysis of popular mobile browsers. This indicates that the majority of the mobile web traffic (>80%) is coming from Opera, iPhone/iTouch, Nokia and Blackberry. --23:14, 7 July 2009 (UTC)

See Mobile Browser (Wikipedia) and a little history on web browsers @ list of web browsers (Wikipedia) including timeline of web browsers (Wikipedia)

Browser Analysis

• Testing mobile browser compatibility — the beginning (QuirksMode)

  The start of comprehensive analysis for mobile browser compatibility - covering Opera (Mobile and Mini), WebKit, NetFront Browser, Internet Explorer Mobile and Blackberry.

• Mobile Web Test Suites Working Group (W3C)

  "to help create a strong foundation for the mobile Web through the development of a set of test suites targeted at browsers."

  • Mobile Test Harness

    CSS MP 1.0 Test Suite results

Browser Testing Tools

• http://www.browsercam.com

  Paid for service to test how your site looks on various web browsers including some mobile devices

Non-mobile Analysis

To compare to how this problem is tackled in the non-mobile world take a look at the following:

• Compatibility Master Table (QuirksMode)

  Very comprehensive compatibility analysis for different PC browsers

• http://browsershots.org

  "Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service"