The easiest way to ensure cross-browser compatibility is to code according to W3C standards. A number of issues to consider when designing for multiple browsers.
…Testing for Multiple Browsers
In the past decade, the web browser landscape has changed dramatically. At the end of the browser wars (Netscape vs Microsoft Internet Explorer), Microsoft was victorious, and Netscape seemed to lay floundering with no hope for recovery.
After Netscape’s quiet descent into the open source world, releasing Mozilla, and its eventual resurgence with Mozilla Firefox, developers who had become lazy, coding only for Internet Explorer (IE), were faced with a new dilemma.
Microsoft ending support for its IE version for Macs also helped to usher in a new browser from Apple: Safari. Add Opera and now Google Chrome, and the chance that coding for one browser and actually having your site look the way you intended on all the others, becomes very slim.
Browser market share aside, it is just part of web design best practices to make sure your website can reach as wide of an audience as possible. That means developing sites that work on desktop browsers, tablets, netbooks, screen readers, and…
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Designing and Testing for Multiple Browsers
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