Today we have 100 of browser in a document, but are your website compatible with all. Think over it. Web marketing is dealing with anonymous customers dispersed around the world. You even dont know what your potential client is using and his system is working on which browser. The browser implements these W3C standard but with a slight difference.
London web designers fight with these differences to create a website with W3C standard. The write up focuses on different effects that the implementation has on design.
Let us start with what actually is Cross Browser Compatibility?
A cross browser compatible website is efficient and opens on every browser in a same way. This gives the website a better approach and wide range. Here it will be better to give reader a brief view about different browser and its user in percentage. Off-course the most used browser is Internet explorer but presently it is facing a tough competition with Browser like chrome and Mozilla.
Here we provide you an approx percentage user of the different browser
Internet Explorer with 38 %user
Firefox with 33% user
Chrome with 23 % user
Opera with 3% user
Netscape with 2% user
Other with 1% user
Each of these above mention browser implements JavaScript, CSS and HTML but differently from each other. These differences can sometime break a web page and it become worse because of the fact that each browser can implement W3C standard version.
UK web design knows the fact that users have access to more than one browser and hence it is their responsibility to provide them flexibility.
When we move to the practical mode, it is well known fact that to attain all browsers compatibility is impossible. But for a web designer UK, writing a clean code that obeys the W3C standard is easy and simple to implement. Other simple ways include..
Validating online code, one can easily validate HTML code and also CSS code. Validator checks the code on DOCTYPE which is specified on the webpage. It actually tells the browser the version of the web page, whether it is using HTML or CSS webpage.
The best choice for compatibility is Dreamweaver but here layer is not preferred it is converted into tables. But if you are making design in Front Page it will not be your effective choice as there is problem in loading page and is best with Internet explorer. In the same way there are coding which doesnt work with other browser. Lets see some of them..
1.Marquees: one can use Java script scroller to make it all browsers compatible
2.Bgsound tag: It is IE precise
3.Page Transitions: Again IE specific
This article dealt with web design compatibility with all browser and efforts of different web designers. Hope this article helped you with the basic of cross browser compatibility