Nellcor.com On Common Mac Browsers
Safari
Safari is Apple's new browser based on the open-source KHTML core. Safari is still in a beta version but Apple PR claims over one million copies were downloaded during the two weeks following the launch of the first public beta. (Update: As of Beta 2 there have been more than two million downloads).
The new Nellcor.com site renders well with no errors but lacks fly-out menus except for a small area above each arrow that causes the fly-out to appear but cannot be reached because the menu disappears upon any movement.
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2
Before the launch of Safari, IE 5.2 was preinstalled with OS X and new Macs. It still holds the largest Mac user-base but that will probably change in the next two years as Safari becomes more standards-compliant and is bundled with Macs that will be sold during that time. It in some ways has better standards support than its IE 6.0 PC counterpart but certain aspects of the CSS parser on the Windows version are better than 5.2.
Again, the Nellcor.com site looks basically the same as on IE 6.0. The fly-out menus work but are a bit sluggish.
Chimera (Mozilla/Netscape Variant)
Chimera is a Mac OS X native implementation of the Gecko rendering engine created by the Mozilla project for Netscape 6/7 and used in the reference implementation of Mozilla. Because it shares the core with Netscape and Mozilla, the results are identical to those on those other browsers on Windows and Macintosh.
No menu fly-outs but the page is displayed correctly.
Netscape 4.77
Netscape 4.77 retains its place in history as the worst browser to every be made and used years past its natural life span. I only have it because it's bundled with the OS X Classic environment. CSS support is almost completely missing. This gives many sites a 1995 era look, especially sites that make extensive use of CSS for layout and (rightly) omit deprecated HTML 3.2 formatting tags.
The left navigation bar suffers greatly from the lack of CSS support in Netscape 4.77 and destroys the flow of the page. However, I did a back-of-the-napkin calculation of the number of Netscape 4.77 browsers running on Mac OS: 3% of computers run Mac OS, 5% of browsers are Netscape 4.77 so the net should be less than 1% of all web traffic is served to Netscape 4.77 on Mac OS. This of course begs the fact that Netscape is more common on Mac than on Windows PCs but the point is an extremely small percentage of users are affected by the poor performance of NS 4.77 and shouldn't be pandered to by designers.
