Browser Compatibility

Make Your Website Browser Compatible

There are many different browsers available to users all around the world, and although you may have spent a lot of time with web design, it does not guarantee that each browser will display your website in the same way. It is difficult to make a website that is 100% compatible with every single browser on the planet, but everything should be fine if the base of your web design is stable. Your website needs to have cross browser compatibility. This means that the web design North London specialist hired to create your web design has made sure that each page will show almost perfectly regardless of which browser it is being shown in.

Every browser has W3C document standards and implements CSS, HTML, and JavaScript a little differently than others. This is mainly because different browsers use various kinds of memory usage and not all of them load websites in the same way either. While some of these differences will only make certain visual parts of a web page look different, others will be conflicted to the point where the entire website will fall apart. This is because browsers are completely free to create surfing systems that they feel will work best for them and for their customers. To make matters just a little bit worse, add the fact that people are using different operating systems as well as different browser versions to browse the Internet, making the whole issue just a little more difficult.

Even if you hire the best web designer from say a top company like flycastmedia.co.uk professional, they cannot guarantee that there will never be any errors or differences through other browsers. But these professionals know exactly what they’re doing, and they are more than capable of coming as close to perfection as it is possible. They start off this remarkable task by creating the best codes possible. If HTML and CSS codes are flawless, they will not be the cause of any malfunctions, and will continue to support the stability of your web pages regardless of which browsers they are being viewed from. There are various online code checkers that can be used to discover how compatible your HTML and CSS codes are, but the general principle is to keep the codes as simple as possible.

HTML codes are accepted by all browsers and should always be used as the base codes for any web page.  The base layout, sidebars, links and general images should all be created using HTML codes because they are very unlikely to fail in any situation. Think of them as your back ups. If other parts of a website fail under pressure in different browsers, at least the overall layout will remain stable and allow visitors to still get the information that they came for before you find a way to sort out the problem. More advanced style changes should not be made through HTML. Flash images and videos are probably best left to CSS coding in order to remain stable on other browsers as well.

CSS will almost never crash regardless of which browser it is being viewed from. The worst that can happen is that they layout is not aligned as nicely as you’d like it to be, and that some of the colours look different than in your default web browser. Other than that, CSS is an excellent coding system to use to create a fantastic visual layout that will require simple coding and be quick to load as well.

Another very stable addition to a website is Flash. Although it does sometimes crash if not implemented correctly from the very start, it is still one of the simplest ways to keep your plug-ins working properly throughout different operating systems as well as through different browsers.