Vying Games : Wiki : System Requirements

Vying Games runs in your web browser. Every web browser varies a little (or a lot), so how well Vying Games works for you will depend on your browser. We try to support every "modern web browser", so as you stay reasonably up-to-date you should be fine.

Firefox

Firefox 1.5, 2.0, 3.0 should all work. We regularly with Firefox 2.0, and spot check Firefox 3.0. Eventually, We'll switch to testing only in Firefox 3.0. The site runs very nicely in Firefox.

Safari

The latest stable version of Safari is tested regularly. Not as frequently as with Firefox, but still fairly often. Vying Games is very nice in Safari.

Opera

Opera testing takes place rarely. There is a known bug that the mouse cursor doesn't change to a hand when hovering over a valid move on a game board. Despite rare testing, Vying Games seems to work pretty well in Opera.

Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer lacks native canvas tag support. We use Google's excanvas library to add canvas support, but it's not as good as native support and can be buggy. In some cases minor features are disabled for Internet Explorer. We're committed to making sure everything works, but you may find that another browser would offer a better experience (for Vying Games and for web browsing in general).

We test regularly against IE7. Everything should work fine. We don't test regularly against IE6, consequently Vying Games sometimes breaks for IE6 users. We try our best to fix IE6 bugs, but recommend upgrading to IE7 or another browser entirely. Vying Games doesn't work at all with older versions of Internet Explorer (like IE5.5).

We haven't started testing with IE8, yet.

Mobile Devices

We've heard Vying Games works on Apple's iPhone, but we haven't done any testing or optimizations for mobile devices.