Browser Support

Zeald.com tries to ensure our websites work flawlessly on all modern and standards compliant browsers.

In particular, our core browser support includes the following:

• Internet Explorer 7+
  
• Firefox 2+
• Safari 3+

We test each release of the Zeald Website Manager software against these browsers, and these browsers are officially supported (in the sense that we consider rendering issues in these browsers to be serious bugs)

Since we follow a standards-based approach to developing websites (with specific browser-specific code to deal with flaws in particular browsers isolated from other browsers), our websites should work with other less widely used browsers provided they are reasonably up to date, eg:

• Opera
• Konqueror
• Screen readers and search engines
• Mobile phone/pda browsers
  

However we cannot guarantee that where these browser deviate from web-standards that we will work around all of their flaws and bugs.

However unfortunately due to the continually changing nature of the internet, without limiting the features available to the majority of web users Zeald cannot support browsers that are no longer supported by their manufacturers: in particular this includes:

• Internet Explorer 5.2 on Apple computers (Microsoft has ceased all support and recomends use of Safari)
• Internet Explorer 6 on Windows - (Microsoft has now pushed out the update to internet explorer 7 to all computers including pirated copies of windows)
• Netscape 6 or below
• Opera 8 or below

Note that we also do not support development beta releases of browsers- eg Internet Explorer Beta 7, since these may contain bugs that we have no way of fixing or working around.

Browsers you should use to administer your site

Because the administration system for your website is only used by the site administrator, it is not necessary for it to support every browser still commonly used on the internet. This allows us to use advanced Javascript and other modern web-development techniques that aren't available in old browsers, making the backend interface easier to use.

In the backend of our websites we support the following browsers:

• Firefox 2+ (recommended)
• Internet Explorer 7+

Other browsers such as safari may work, however we cannot guarantee that all functionality will work.  As Firefox is free and available for all major platforms we recommend it.
Some advanced functionality may require extra software:

• A spreadsheet (either OpenOffice or Microsoft Excel, or any other application able to open Excel spreadsheets)
• A PDF viewer such as Adobe Acrobat Reader
• The Macromedia Flash plugin