[Hidden-tech] proofing a website

[Town Websites]

True, except that there are many standards, and many devices still in use were created to meet different standards.

 

For example, html5, which is the standard many people want to design to now, is not nearly 100% implemented.  Here’s a website that purports to rate html5 compliance; this page shows compliance over time for top browsers: https://html5test.com/results/desktop.html .

 

For websites I’ve built for clients, I’ve generally avoided html5 except where the elements gracefully degrade, though would evaluate this with the client at this point since html5 is so much more interesting than earlier standards. 

 

In the old days, many developers supported Internet Explorer 6 years after IE7  replace it, even after Microsoft announced it was end of life, because there was still a significant installed base.  These days, it seems that developers care less about working on 100% of the installed base.  For example, many android browsers just a few years old can’t load a number of significant websites, which are ‘standards complaint’ but based on newer standards.  I think that’s more or less reasonable, for the industry, though still try to maintain functional websites for html 4 complaint browsers even if some features gracefully degrade.

 

Charlie Heath

Townwebsites

 

 

From: hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net [mailto:hidden-discuss-bounces at lists.hidden-tech.net] On Behalf Of Mark D. Hamill
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 4:55 PM
To: Kristi <krystyobolyte at gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Belmont Piano Teacher <dbelmont2 at gmail.com>; Hidden Tech Discussion List <hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net>
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] proofing a website

 

Technically, if your website is standards compliant you can test by simply reducing the width of the browser window and see what happens. Responsive content is usually either hidden or pushed below the main content. 

 

Just in case it's not being done make sure your HTML is version 5 and that you validate your HTML and CSS with w3.org <http://w3.org> 's validators. 

 

http://validator.w3.org/

https://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

 

Browser manufacturers now go through a lot of trouble to ensure they comply with standards. There are some exceptions of course, but writing standards compliant HTML, CSS and Javascript is probably the fastest and cheapest way to address potential incompatibility issues. Those browsers with quirks are probably worth ignoring until they fix their browsers.

 

There are some browser quirks you can decide if you want to address or not. Retinal displays like retinal images (2x the detail) and images served to these devices may look fuzzy. Wordpress has a plugin that detects these devices and can serve retinal images. Also, Apple devices promote their Apple touch icons and some developers will make sure their markup supports Apple's peculiar standard.

 

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/SafariWebContent/ConfiguringWebApplications/ConfiguringWebApplications.html

 

On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 4:30 PM, Kristi <krystyobolyte at gmail.com <mailto:krystyobolyte at gmail.com> > wrote:

you can try this, too:

 

https://search.google.com/search-console/mobile-friendly




Kristi A. Bodin

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On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 2:42 PM, Dan Belmont Piano Teacher <dbelmont2 at gmail.com <mailto:dbelmont2 at gmail.com> > wrote:

Hello Everyone --

 

   What specific computers, phones, and tablets should I view my website on to 

make sure that it is formatted correctly everywhere ? I am assuming I should just look

at the most popular ones ... 

 

Thanks ! 

 

Dan Belmont 

Piano Teacher


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