Websites generally don’t render same in all browsers. Therefore, web designers generally need to code their webpage accordingly. But the problem still persists because none of the most popular WYSIWYG editors generate 100% W3C standard code. The newer the standards, the less likely the code will meet those standards. Dreamweaver produces the most correct code while Front Page is the worst of the lot because it been a Microsoft product does the best job and Front Page the worst job. It’s not surprising that FrontPage, which is a Microsoft product, writes code almost exclusively for Internet Explorer. Hand coding does the job to a large extent but still not a guarantee as hard coding requires extensive knowledge of CSS standards.
Another problem is that a lot of the fancier and nicer features available are not universally supported by all web browsers. Many web designers choose to ignore the 35% of web surfers so they can implement the effects.
Although all web browsers understand and render HTML, they don’t follow the same rules. Each web browser has proprietary extensions to HTML and CSS that it uses to create special effects. The result is that code that looks and works great in IE may crash Firefox, Opera or Safari and vice versa. Unfortunately, many web designers choose to code for IE and ignore the other significant percentage of web surfers. There are hundreds of different browsers and more appearing as PDAs, cell phones and every other imaginable electronic device is being built to be “internet compatible”.
It is impossible to test your web pages on every browser and platform. While testing on the major browsers is more than sufficient for most designers, web designers who want their websites to work on as many different platforms as possible can check the code they write to see if it meets the standards. They can verify the code on W3C website.
Yahoo has acquired a new domain name, and which may play a significant role in Yahoo’s future in social networking industry. The Me.me domain name will tie in to Yahoo’s microblogging site, Meme.
Antonio Silveira, a director of product development and engineering at Yahoo, indicated that he’d like that to change, though. In a press release announcing the new acquisition, Silveira described the Me.me domain name as “an essential component of our online branding strategy.”
Jeremiah Johnston, the COO of Sedo, also stated, “We are delighted to extend our relationship with one of the Internet’s most recognized brands, and help Yahoo! determine the best domain name strategy to fully engage its social networking audience.”
It could be that Yahoo’s new ad campaign will promote Meme or that Yahoo has plans to focus on the property once its arrangement with Microsoft is worked out. Or it could just be that the press release blew the importance of this move out of proportion.
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