Articles Tagged with “Standards”

19/10/2003: On Web Design

local wrote:

Now I wonder how important cross-browser coding actually is. How many browsers do I have to test, which versions?

I have two philosophies on this question.

The first is the philosophy I apply when making my own website — I stick to the standards and let any browser that can’t handle it be damned. If 99% of browsers don’t work on it, that’s fine by me. (OK, so I have added a few little workarounds for IE6, but nothing major)

The second philosophy is similar and is what I use for other people’s websites. Again, write to standards, but make sure it works more or less perfectly in:

• IE 5+ (Windows)
• Netscape 6+
• Opera 7+
• Konqueror

and make sure the content is readable and the site is navigatable in:

• Netscape 4.x
• IE 4 (Win)
• IE 5 (Mac)
• Opera 5+
• Lynx

Now, the best way to do this, is to follow my smiple (sic) 7 point design
procedure:

1. Content

Start with the content. It may be cliche to say so nowadays, but content really is king.

2. Markup

Mark up the content…