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Developers Recommended to Support IE Rivals

January 25th, 2006 by Kel Smith

Web developers have been told to ensure that the sites they build are operable with browsers which rival Internet Explorer. This includes open-source heroes Firefox and Apple’s Safari. Deri Jones of SciVisum explains their reasoning and has the XiTI metrics to back it up:

Jones advised web developers to develop code around the W3C’s Cascading Style Sheets 2 specification, which simplifies site development by separating content and presentation, and makes sites more accessible to disabled people. “Those that stick to standards have much more reliable, stable and fast web sites,” Jones argued. “They should keep it simple, and [taking into consideration] accessibility issues also improves the performance of web sites.”

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2 Responses to “Developers Recommended to Support IE Rivals”

  1. Posted: October 17th, 2006 at 10:57 am
    Brad SEO Says:

    I think there should be a standard across browsers. I mean we really have two main contenders right now... IE and Firefox. They both render CSS so differently you almost have to double your work in two seperate stylesheets, one for IE and one for Firefox.

  2. Posted: March 26th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
    John Says:

    website development

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