Comments on: Your Web Site vs. The Other Browser: Cross-browser Compliance http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/your-web-site-vs-the-other-browser-cross-browser-compliance/ Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:33:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Justin Klingman http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/your-web-site-vs-the-other-browser-cross-browser-compliance/comment-page-1/#comment-361 Justin Klingman Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:07:40 +0000 http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/creative-design/your-web-site-vs-the-other-browser-cross-browser-compliance/#comment-361 Hi Edgar, It sounds like you've taken the first step to making your Web site cross-browser compliant: acceptance! You've accepted that which we all don't want to accept: that browsers read plain HTML & CSS differently! It is indeed a challenge for us Web designers & developers, and one that I don't take lightly. To address your specific situation, as you've found out, it is very difficult to get your hands on all of the browsers that people use. However, you need these browsers to test your site with all possible scenarios. Fortunately here at Beacon, we have multiple "test" servers that contain all current browsers that are known to exist, including IE 6 & 7, Firefox 2 & 3 (PC and Mac), Safari (PC and Mac), Google Chrome, and Opera. So it's very easy for us to see how one of our developed sites will look in all of these browsers. But what do you do if you don't have this kind of access? There are plenty of sites out there where you submit your URL to them, and they process it using any browser you choose. After a short processing delay, you'll see your submitted page as a screenshot in the requested browser(s). One such site is BrowserShots (http://www.browsershots.org/). However, seeing the problems is the first step. Fixing it is a whole other challenge. That's where my team at Beacon steps up to the plate. I encourage you to go to our main Web site Contact Us form(http://www.beacontechnologies.com/contact/) and request assistance on making your site cross-browser compliant. Good luck with it, and keep your chin up: IE 8 is just around the corner. :) Hi Edgar,

It sounds like you’ve taken the first step to making your Web site cross-browser compliant: acceptance! You’ve accepted that which we all don’t want to accept: that browsers read plain HTML & CSS differently! It is indeed a challenge for us Web designers & developers, and one that I don’t take lightly.

To address your specific situation, as you’ve found out, it is very difficult to get your hands on all of the browsers that people use. However, you need these browsers to test your site with all possible scenarios. Fortunately here at Beacon, we have multiple “test” servers that contain all current browsers that are known to exist, including IE 6 & 7, Firefox 2 & 3 (PC and Mac), Safari (PC and Mac), Google Chrome, and Opera. So it’s very easy for us to see how one of our developed sites will look in all of these browsers.

But what do you do if you don’t have this kind of access? There are plenty of sites out there where you submit your URL to them, and they process it using any browser you choose. After a short processing delay, you’ll see your submitted page as a screenshot in the requested browser(s). One such site is BrowserShots (http://www.browsershots.org/).

However, seeing the problems is the first step. Fixing it is a whole other challenge. That’s where my team at Beacon steps up to the plate. I encourage you to go to our main Web site Contact Us form(http://www.beacontechnologies.com/contact/) and request assistance on making your site cross-browser compliant.

Good luck with it, and keep your chin up: IE 8 is just around the corner. :)

]]> By: Edgar Vargas http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/your-web-site-vs-the-other-browser-cross-browser-compliance/comment-page-1/#comment-360 Edgar Vargas Sun, 18 Jan 2009 02:31:53 +0000 http://blog.beacontechnologies.com/creative-design/your-web-site-vs-the-other-browser-cross-browser-compliance/#comment-360 First I would like to give you some of my background. I am multimedia designer. I went to a small but very good technical college in Washington State. My main strength is Audio/Video editing, but I also have degrees in Print and Web design, but these are more secondary skills. I am very aware of the issue of making a site cross-browser compliant. I have talked with my teachers about these challenges. Unfortunately for all my studies its still a problem that vexes me. Anyway after some long delay I am finally ready to launch my online portfolio. I am developing on my Mac, so I had no reliable IE version to test on since Mircrosoft stopped supporting IE for Mac. Having done this before I continued developing on my Mac testing in Firefox, knowing full well in the end the site would render well in Firefox and other browsers (i.e. Opera, Safari, etc.) but would be "broken" and need attention to make the site look good in IE. So the other day I finally bought my web hosting service, and uploaded it to the servers. Looks fine at home on the Mac and FF. Went to work to test it on IE and to no surprise I have issues (although smaller than in the past) but still some issues. So here am now on my Mac, using Google to finally figure out how to crack this nut for good. I used Dreamweaver CS3, and I know in their templates they have special code that make the site render correctly in IE. I have copy and pasted this code into my pages in the correct location, as instructed my teacher long ago, but I know I am not making full use of them. So anyway here I am searching for an answer so I can fix what needs to be fixed, so I can finally start promoting my site, so I can finally get my career off the ground. I found your blog and your company, and I am hoping you can help. Do have a service that can make my site cross browser compliant? At this point I am willing to pay a professional if I can afford it, just so I can finally take that next big step. Is there anyone at your company that can give a young new designer some wisdom and help for this issue. Like I said my main area of media design is Audio/Video editing, but I'm no nube to web design, but I just want to finish this site and get it properly posted. As you might be able to tell I'm a bit frustrated by this and any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank You Edgar crookedhalo.org First I would like to give you some of my background. I am multimedia designer. I went to a small but very good technical college in Washington State. My main strength is Audio/Video editing, but I also have degrees in Print and Web design, but these are more secondary skills. I am very aware of the issue of making a site cross-browser compliant. I have talked with my teachers about these challenges. Unfortunately for all my studies its still a problem that vexes me. Anyway after some long delay I am finally ready to launch my online portfolio. I am developing on my Mac, so I had no reliable IE version to test on since Mircrosoft stopped supporting IE for Mac. Having done this before I continued developing on my Mac testing in Firefox, knowing full well in the end the site would render well in Firefox and other browsers (i.e. Opera, Safari, etc.) but would be “broken” and need attention to make the site look good in IE.

So the other day I finally bought my web hosting service, and uploaded it to the servers. Looks fine at home on the Mac and FF. Went to work to test it on IE and to no surprise I have issues (although smaller than in the past) but still some issues.

So here am now on my Mac, using Google to finally figure out how to crack this nut for good. I used Dreamweaver CS3, and I know in their templates they have special code that make the site render correctly in IE. I have copy and pasted this code into my pages in the correct location, as instructed my teacher long ago, but I know I am not making full use of them.

So anyway here I am searching for an answer so I can fix what needs to be fixed, so I can finally start promoting my site, so I can finally get my career off the ground. I found your blog and your company, and I am hoping you can help.

Do have a service that can make my site cross browser compliant? At this point I am willing to pay a professional if I can afford it, just so I can finally take that next big step.

Is there anyone at your company that can give a young new designer some wisdom and help for this issue.

Like I said my main area of media design is Audio/Video editing, but I’m no nube to web design, but I just want to finish this site and get it properly posted.

As you might be able to tell I’m a bit frustrated by this and any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thank You
Edgar
crookedhalo.org

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