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Stick to standard CSS for all your websites online

Finley — Thu, 26 May 2011 13:18:22 +0000

Stick to standard CSS for all your websites online. Why do I say this? There are so many different browsers around now across numourous platforms (desktop, mobile, apple, iphone, windows phone, etc.) and trying to use any fancy CSS will cause an error on your site in one or more of the other browser.

Look at all the major sites online and you’ll see they all look and work perfectly in all modern browsers. Trying to be a little clever sometimes does not help and can lead to a loss of sales and customers!

So, next time you make a site, make it user friendly!

Design Company Hold ‘IE6 Funeral’

Nina — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:49:37 +0000

A US web design agency will be staging a mock funeral for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 web browser.

Denver based firm Aten Design Group Inc. announced the outdated browser’s ‘death’ through the website IE6Funeral.com. A tongue-in-cheek message on the website states:

“Internet Explorer Six, resident of the interwebs for over 8 years, died the morning of March 1, 2010, in Mountain View, California, as a result of a workplace injury sustained at the headquarters of Google, Inc.

Internet Explorer Six, known to friends and family as ‘IE6,’ is survived by son Internet Explorer Seven, and grand-daughter Internet Explorer Eight.”

The references to Google and March 1 are due to an announcement by the search giant stating that they will be dropping support for IE6 in their Google Doc applications.

Will we ever have a standardised web browser?

Nina — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:26:34 +0000

Do you think a time will come where we will have a standardised web browser?

I don’t mean the possibility of there being only one universal browser but the possibility of all browsers rendering web pages in the exact same manner!

This is a dream to most web developers because most of their time is spent in making a website compatible with all browsers (especially Internet Explorer 6!!).

There will probably not be a day where all browsers render the web the same however I think soon a time will come when all browsers will render pages almost the same, not exact but close!

Google brings Chrome to IE

Nina — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:41:07 +0000

Google is well known for its expansive development of new and unexpected ideas. This time Google developers decided to bring the compatibility with HTML5 and CSS3 to Internet Explorer. By installing a special third party plugin you can extend IE’s functionality and compatibility with new standards. The plugin brings the Chome’s engine to IE and even makes the JavaScript work a lot faster then before.

The usage is simple. Google defined a special tag that you can apply to your website that if the user has the IE Google plugin installed it will automatically be picked up by it and will enable the rich features for IE users, or in case of not having the plugin installed it will advise them to do this as the page contains rich content that cannot be displayed otherwise.

Pretty good Google, making IE usable it’s the way to go!