Fonant uses various tools to develop websites, including:

• Zend Studio – Integrated development environment for PHP, including debugging and profiling
• Subversion (SVN) – Source code control system to record software version changes
• Adobe Photoshop – The industry-standard image manipulation application
• PuTTY – Cross-platform SSH client, installed on WinXP and Nokia 9300 mobile phone for remote server access
• FTP Voyager – Windows FTP client with directory synchronisation facilities
• Charles Web Debugging Proxy – Investigate web communications in great detail, test for slow connections, and more!

Fonant uses these web browsers:

• Opera – Main browser, fast and standards-compliant, including RSS reader and the best e-mail client there is.
• Firefox 2 – Secondary browser.
• Internet Explorer 7 – Well, you have to support it, even though it’s not always very easy.

Fonant tests sites in these web browsers:

• Firefox 1.5
• Internet Explorer 6 – many people still use this ancient browser
• Safari – Apple’s browser, now also available to run under Microsoft Windows

Firefox 1.5 and Internet Explorer 6 are tested using full installations in a Windows Virtual machine, so that they behave exactly as they should do.