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or design whole site in flash ;) only 15% of surfers dont have the ability to play flash animations and it is crosss browser compatable.
But I guess only I would see that as a solution - pretty much what everyone else said is a good way to go - you might also want to set up a beta site for testing where you can have some friends with macs visit and send you screenies so you can see any probs
personnaly i would ditch ALL javascript am not a big fan not only does it cause cross browser issues but alot of people either do not have java capable browsers or have it disabled due to security issues
v_Ln
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Originally posted here by SDK
I disagree! Don't bother doing a webpage for old browser! The % of peoples surfing with a browser that do not support XHTML and CSS is soo low that it's a waste of time. But I agree that following XHTML recommendation of W3.org is a very good start.
I didn't say that you have to do special version of page for old browsers. I said that you can simply use text version for this browsers - so they will see simple text and will be able to read your site.
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Originally posted here by valhallen
or design whole site in flash ;) only 15% of surfers dont have the ability to play flash animations and it is crosss browser compatable.
But I guess only I would see that as a solution - pretty much what everyone else said is a good way to go - you might also want to set up a beta site for testing where you can have some friends with macs visit and send you screenies so you can see any probs
personnaly i would ditch ALL javascript am not a big fan not only does it cause cross browser issues but alot of people either do not have java capable browsers or have it disabled due to security issues
v_Ln
Don't use flash for designing web page. There are too many disadvantages - here are some of them:
1. - search robots won't find and index your page
2. - there are problems with printing the page
3. - users can't change font size
4. - 15% is not small number, is it?;)
So I would use flash only as add-on feature. Make some animations, make some games, whatever. But not whole page. Not as a way to make your site compatible with all kind of browsers;)
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Hmmm....ditch the javascripting....that's easier said than done, I have a lot of functions , like swapping images, opening new pages, playing sounds.....how am i gonna get all that done without any javascripts ?
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Well, i first had 29 errors on the page when i ran this W3C validator, and after some tweaking around, i now have a VALID page it says....so that means that it should be viewable by most people yes?
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Well it should be, but probably it won't be:( It is because almost every browser has some mistake in displaying and in following w3 standarts. So the only way how you can be sure that your site displays correctly is to test it.
But I think that it isn't important to test it in all browsers. For example I test my sites in IE 5.0 (many people are still using this full of bugs browser), IE 5.5, IE 6.0, newest Opera, newest Netscape and Mozilla. And time to time I take a look how does my sites look in Safari.
The advantage of valid page is that almost every time my test shows no problems. And that few times I see some problem it is easy to find on the internet what is causing this problem and how to solve it.
And one thing that could really help you - you can have installed multiple instances of IE installed on you PC - how to do it can be found here. And you can see how does your pages look in safari using iCapture .
If you have some more problems or question feel free to ask:)
