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Kristina Anderson wrote:
> Bev,
> 
> Thanks, some great info!
> 
> I will read up on the below as you suggest, and have forwarded this to 
> my other team member.

You're welcome, Kristina. ;-)

I forgot to mention that while our web site says we only build sites for 
modern browsers, we also say that if they have special needs we can 
accommodate them. I just wanted to clarify that.

Anyway, since we're on the subject and there may be people who are still 
learning & need pointers, here are some links that may prove helpful:

Browser Trends & Stats
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http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat_trends.htm
http://www.upsdell.com/BrowserNews/stat.htm
http://www.thecounter.com/stats/

CSS Specificity Calculator
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http://www.rebelinblue.com/specificity.php

CSS Support Charts
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http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Mozilla_CSS_support_chart
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc351024(VS.85).aspx
http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/opera9/css/ (other charts in sidebar)

I couldn't find any up-to-date charts for Macs, but MacEdition has some 
older stuff: http://old.macedition.com/cb/resources/index.html

HTML E-mail
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If you code anything that generates HTML emails these are good:

2008 Guide to CSS Email Support (desktop & web clients)
http://www.campaignmonitor.com/css/

Email Standards Project
http://www.email-standards.org/

Online Browser Testing
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Browsershots
http://browsershots.org/

IE NetRenderer
http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/

Browsrcamp (Mac)
http://www.browsrcamp.com/

Ajaxian Safari Test (Mac)
http://ajaxian.com/archives/safaritest-browser-testing-for-non-mac-folk

Vischeck (Colorblind vision simulator)
http://www.vischeck.com/

Online Validation
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X/HTML http://validator.w3.org/

CSS http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

Accessibility http://www.contentquality.com/

Misc.
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Typetester (compare screen fonts)
http://www.typetester.org/

Cheat Sheets
http://www.addedbytes.com/cheat-sheets/

Ultimate .htaccess Examples
http://www.evolt.org/ultimate_htaccess_examples

Best .htaccess Tutorials with Sample .htaccess files
http://www.askapache.com/htaccess/apache-htaccess.html

Xenu open source link checker (Windows only)
http://home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html

HTTRack open source link checker (Windows only)
http://www.httrack.com/

Dust-Me Selectors
A Firefox extension that finds unused CSS selectors - current v2.1 works 
with FF v3.0, but not v3.0.1. Kindly google this one as I dislike the 
creators' promotion of spec work and would rather not provide another 
link to their site.

Going back into lurk mode...

Regards,
Bev