Having multiple browsers available on your desktop and using them is a Good Thing. Not everyone who is viewing the site will be doing so from the same sort of machine as you are creating the pages on. For instance, even within Monash, the student labs can boot Linux, Win3.1 or Win95, as the student wishes, and each operating system renders pages in a different fashion. For instance, Netscape under Windows 95 renders a button on a form as having a white background, regardless, whereas Netscape under Linux renders the button with the same background as the rest of the page - a bit of a problem if both your text and your background are a dark colour, and not immediately evident if you are only looking at the page with a windows browser. Although the most common browsers are graphic in nature, many people looking around the World Wide Web do not use a browser with graphical capabilities.
Reasons can include lack of access to such a browser or perhaps speed or data restrictions.
Nonetheless, a significant percentage of the people examining the Faculty site use a text based browser such as Lynx. If you have access to a copy of Lynx, try looking at your pages with it - it can be quite educational. Disability Access Quite aside from the problems with presentation of your information, some of the browsers on the World Wide Web suffer from various disabilities. Under the Disability Discrimination Act, it is a requirement that any information available on web pages published on Monash's servers be accessible to the disabled. Vision Impaired Depending on the profoundity of the vision impairment, some people browsing the site may increase the size of their fonts to the maximum their machine will allow.