Eric Meyer has a great post on website compatibility and the classic "This site is optimized for ..." comment.
http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2007/08/08/the-veterans-charge/
And I think every word he writes is correct. Escpecially nowadays where more and more browsers, for Mac, PC and a large number of other devices, are beginning to cling on to the market. The "browser-wars" is still flaming hot, and the Internet Explorer army is not as strong as it used to be.
But I would like to further extend Eric's post, and say that even though you can view a website optimized for something weird on other browsers it isn't always that pretty. And sometimes a layout can be so buggy, that you have trouble getting the information you're looking for. And that's wrong too!
The Internet is for sharing information with everyone, not the people with the same browser as you. Therefore, I say, Webdesigners/developers: Please make the effort to create websites for more than your own browser!
Thursday, August 16, 2007
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That is often easier said than done. At NewsBlaze.com - probably typical of most sites - IE of different versions holds 84% of the market. 14% Firefox. How much effort and cost should a site put into working with 10 different browsers that send a total of 2% of the traffic - most of them less than 0.2% each. Not only that, how do I access a Mac with a particular browser to test it.
The best thing to do is to use standard code and be aware of issues.
Hey NewzBlaze,
I've made a reply for you:
http://djuncas.blogspot.com/2007/10/web-and-what-will-happen-to-it.html
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