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The Top 30 Websites, Viewed in IE6

12 November 2010 / 10 Comments

The Top 30 Websites, Viewed in IE6

Internet Explorer 6. Nine years on, it’s still a headache for web designers and developers across the globe!

Most of us would like to forget about this horrid old browser — first launched in 2001, for crying out loud — but there’s always that client or user who insists on using it (or is forced to by their employer). Even among the audience of W3Schools — a web-savvy crowd if ever there was one — there are still around 5% of visitors using IE6 at the time of writing.

The result of all this is that we are forced to spend hours of extra coding time, just to make our sites work in this outdated browser.

How many big sites these days actually bother supporting IE6?

But how many big sites these days actually bother supporting IE6? One might think that they all would, considering their huge user bases. But is this the case?

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10 Tips for Building Cross-browser Websites

9 January 2009 / 5 Comments

In theory, building a Web page is simple: Throw together some HTML, test it in your browser, and upload. HTML and CSS are standards, so a page tested in one browser should look the same in all other browsers.

In practice, of course, things aren’t that simple. Different browsers display HTML and CSS in subtly different ways, while some browsers (we won’t name names) veer wildly from the standards.

It’s best to build your Web pages so that they look consistent across a range of browsers. This is often known as cross-browser (or multi-browser) coding.

While there’s no “magic bullet” that will make a site look great on all browsers, there are a number of things you can do to improve your chances. Here are ten useful tips for cross-browser coding.

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The HTML Alt and Title Attributes

17 March 2008 / 7 Comments

HTML provides two main ways to add descriptive text to page elements: the alt attribute, and the title attribute. While these two attributes may appear to work in a similar way, they have quite different purposes. This article takes a look at these two attributes, explores their similarities and differences, and shows how to use both attributes correctly.

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