Compatibility Issues

Look at your Web site on

Look at your site in

Look at your site on

This course requires your final site to be cross browser (Windows-Internet Explorer 5.5 and Mac-Netscape 3.0) compatible. Use the windows machine at the front of the room to view your site through Internet Explorer. If cross-browser discrepancies are great, create different versions of your pages and use redirect Javascript code on your index page. (Later versions of browsers are becoming more standardized.)

You must also make your site non-Javascript enabled browser friendly. This means that if a non-Javascript enabled browser visits your site the user should be able to understand your site layout and access all parts of your site. This might require a non-Javascript version of your site to be created and a Javascript redirect code used on this page to send Javascript enabled browsers to another home page (site).

Another cross-browser issue worth noting: There are unresolved 'offset variations' issues between Netscape and Internet Explorer and even between the different versions of those browsers. The offset is the distance between the content of the page and the edge of the browser window. Different browsers set differing offset distances. This can complicate precise registration of background images and foreground content.