Back to the WWW Stone Age?
I’m starting to see sites popping up with “best viewed with browser A or browser B” again. Didn’t we move past browser-dependence about 5 years ago?
I’m also seeing self-proclaimed “web developers” talking about the browsers they use to test their sites.
I know AJAX is very trendy right about now, but even then you must follow the simple rule of web design:
You code to the standards, then the browser makers uphold the standards and your sites work.
If you slap your code together and test it in your particular trendy browser of choice, you let Microsoft and Mozilla get away with putting proprietary code in their browsers that starts degrading web browsing in general: people have to run multiple browsers on their systems, or more likely, your site gets ignored by people that don’t have your favorite browser.
This isn’t rocket science people, it’s web design. So go to w3c.org and learn about what you’re doing.
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