Browser
requirement issues
- What are your browser requirements?
- Are they absolutely necessary?
- Do you
really need that multimedia object?
- which might require an uncommon plug-in?
- Can you assume a given browser configuration?
- May need text, graphics and advanced Web pages
- Save to assume Netscape and MSIE 3.0 or better?
- Other issues?
Browser-independent pages
- Use JavaScript
to test for browser type and deliver appropriate HTML on-the-fly.
See sample code to detect browsers (at bottom)
- Avoid platform-specific objects like ActiveX
- Avoid media that requires complex browser configuration
- Use fixed pixel dimensions for positioning
- Avoid
non-std browser extensions or hacks
- Netscape spacer and layer tags (Spr98)
- MSIE font embedding (Spr98)
- MSIE Marquee tag (Spr98)
- Use authoring programs that do it for you like Macromedia DreamWeaver and NetObjects Fusion 3.0.
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Standards
and browser Web sites