Maximising Web Site Viewability - Browsers

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It also shows thatrepparttar foothold Microsoft gained inrepparttar 146830 browser wars is failing. No doubt they will once again gain ground next year withrepparttar 146831 eagerly awaited new operating system codename longhorn.

The open source mozilla firefox is gaining ground, but i have noticed that this is mainly because of users who are big gamers onrepparttar 146832 internet have switched to firefox. This is taken from statistics i did on one of my gaming sites which showed firefox on 65% and Internet explorer on 35%. It appears business users stay with Microsoft.

The message here to web designers is that web sites should be configured viewable inrepparttar 146833 3 major browsers which are Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari. This can be achieved by runningrepparttar 146834 pages through a validator which can be found at http://www.w3schools.com

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Browser Compatibility

Written by Phillip Harrison


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The solution for webmasters is to make all their pages XHTML transitional. Web sites that validate to this, have a higher chance of being viewed correctly in all major browsers.

XHTML isrepparttar next generation web language, and is said to replace HTML eventually. XHTML was released in January 2000.

XHTML is not a difficult language to learn, it is basically identical to HTML butrepparttar 146615 main difference is that tags in XHTML always have an end tag.

For example, a IMG SRC tag in HTML has no end tag. In XHTMLrepparttar 146616 IMG SRC tag hasrepparttar 146617 end tag of />

More information on learning XHTML can be found at http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_intro.asp

Once you have constructed your XHTML web page then you can validate it at http://www.w3schools.com/xhtml/xhtml_validate.asp

Further, to ensure near complete browser compatibility you can validate any stylesheet here : http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

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