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Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

David — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:13:47 -0000

Thanks for referring browsershots, really useful for designers.

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

darbez — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:45:17 -0000

good one

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Virtual Millenium — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 06:47:30 -0000

I've just finished working on my new theme, I checked it with xhtml and css validators, everything is OK, I just needed to see if it was compatible with all browser, that's when I found “Browser Shots” from your post, I'm trying it right now, so thank you for sharing the information :)

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

matthew — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:13:36 -0000

Great tools, luckily I passed :lol:

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Steve W — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:14:55 -0000

I can't believe that even 1% of users still have IE 5.5 or below. I would rather spend that time and effort to get things looking right in IE4 - IE5.5 instead on further enhancing the site for better accessibility. Besides, browsers that old can't handle the more advanced functionality that most clients these days look for (as much as I hate the term, they ask if we do "web 2.0"). Although I agree that you should strive to make a site that's browser tested and bulletproof, the ratio of time to testing and the lost functionality has to be considered as well.

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Harry Roberts — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:49:10 -0000

@ Krasi - there is not tag called target. There is however an attribute called target, but it shouldn't be used (I'm guessing you were validating in a Strict DOCTYPE to receive that message).

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Fubiz — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 04:38:55 -0000

Excellent tool.

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Rohin — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:40:48 -0000

Not a problem ! , I believe that supporting older technology will help your international readers who may not have the Latest browsers , then again most people would argue that it only constitutes 1% of the browsers currently active. I guess I'm just more accommodating. :happy:

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Giacomo — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:35:27 -0000

great tool! thanx!

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Anthony Short — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:28:05 -0000

@Krasi - If you're being serious, the attribute "target" isn't valid under Strict.

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Gilzow — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:19:08 -0000

@Krasi - you've got all kinds of problems with your site, at least for your declared doctype (XHTML 1.1). If you declared HTML 4, you wouldnt see nearly as many errors. And yes, the "target" /attribute/ is no longer valid if your doctype is XHTML. The W3c validator works as it should; you just haven't coded your site to the specifications of the doctype you have declared.

Also, your hidden input "tafurl" in the "tell your friend" feature is vulnerable to cross-site scripting.

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

stelt — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:06:00 -0000

@Krasi: there are different HTML versions, of which some really don't have the "target" attribute.

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Ryan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:12:54 -0000

@designing.net.nz

Getting browser stats from w3schools is pretty much useless unless you're building a website aimed at web developers and you want to know the browsers they're using.

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Allan — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 03:21:32 -0000

IE4? LOL. As far as I'm concerned, users can expect a degraded experience for anything below IE7. I will not support IE6 any longer. I'm not saying that I don't test in IE6, and I fix issues which affect the functionality and/or access to the information, but the investment of time spent is not worth the payoff. I say force users to upgrade.

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

designing.net.nz — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:57:14 -0000

Would really say the majority shouldn't bother with iE5 and below, they constitute around 1% of the market (http://www.w3schools.com/br..., and economically not viable for clients to worry about. Likewise for smaller clients with tight budgets, generally ie6,7 & ff are all that are required (93-96% of total market).

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Rick — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:57:52 -0000

Real developers run all the popular browsers on all the popular OSes. :ninja:

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Amit — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:18:21 -0000

Try the following new website for web browser discussion...

http://www.browserspot.com

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Charles Yarbrough — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:11:06 -0000

Great tools, luckily I passed

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

kluizenaar — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:09:46 -0000

Come on. IE4/5/5.5 are history. Supporting them is nothing worth anymore. Users that are still on a browser that old have many problems... the layout of a site being the least of them.

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Ray — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:45:46 -0000

The 'minimum' is IE4? I would say that these days, you shouldn't have to worry about supporting anyone using any version that came out before IE6. Sure, accessibility is important, but supporting early browsers just doesn't make sense in a lot of contexts.

Re: Is Your Website Cross Browser Compatible ? ; CSS, Html & Compatibility

Krasi — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:32:37 -0000

Woohoo :)

I am so happy my website is compatible with most browsers but that W3C validator totally sucks :( found like 135 Errors and most of them were strange and for example it told me there is no tag called "target" LOL.
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