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You've spent a lot of
time and a fair amount of
money making sure your site
looks just right. Right colors,
fonts and layout. Logos,
menus and images are all
in the proper places. No
surprises. And you assume
when Bill in Houston looks
at your site he's seeing
the same thing as Ingrid
in Stockholm or André in
Montreal.
Well, maybe he does. Maybe
not.
Peek-a-boo Howdy I
see you
The three blue blocks above
all have writing inside them.
If you're using Internet
Explorer (IE) on a PC, you
can see the words through
box 1 only.
With Netscape, Mozilla or
Camino you will only be able
to see through box 2.
Firefox lets you see under
boxes 2 and 3 (but not 1)!
Box 3 is for the Safari
browser, popular on Apple computers.
It's blind to boxes 1 and
2.
If you're using IE on a
Macintosh, or Opera, sorry.
You may never know what's
in the boxes! And if you're
using a really old version,
this page is probably a confusing
jumble!
That's a very simple example
of how different browsers
display pages differently.
Despite the 'standards'
for web site coding established
by the W3
consortium, no
two browsers work quite the
same. Web designers must
be aware of this. It's a
significant aspect of the
design task to make sure
all pages in a site look
and work correctly on a variety
of browsers. This means being
aware of the differences,
coding accordingly and testing
on each browser.
You
don't want to lose a customer
or contributor because your
site looks or acts dysfunctional.
And according to Murphy,
the biggest would-be customer
out there is the one using
the oddest browser. FollyArts
keeps up-to-the-minute on
browser changes, and checks
all development work on the
wide variety of browsers
in use. Give
us a call.
Cheers
the FollyArts Team |
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