Comments on: What is “Cross-browser compatibility?”

By: Naveen P Suthar

Naveen P Suthar — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:48:30 +0000

Cross-browser compatibility is somehow entirely different from the multi-browser compatibility.

Cross-browser refers to the ability for a website, web application, HTML construct or client-side script to support all the web browsers. The term cross-browser is often confused with multi-browser. Multi-browser means something works with several web browsers. Cross-browser means something works with all versions of all browsers to have existed since the web began.

It is petty difficult for a developer to achieve the cross-browser compatibility rather than achieving the multi-browser compatibility.

Functionality as well as looking of the content on the contemporary web browser is matter, as I think. And as this article says the desktop and mobile browser’s compatibility is petty impossible in today’s scenario.

Well article is a good stuff on this issue.

By: tony

tony — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:11:24 +0000

Functionality is I think the only thing that matters. I really do not care what things look like exactly. Just that they still work. I can always make things pretty later.

That is the non-designer programmer in me coming out.

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 14:43:55 +0000

Thanks, Rob! If it’s not broken, no need to fix it, right?

Of course, clients frequently have very different ideas of what ‘broken’ means…

By: Rob Mason

Rob Mason — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:56:04 +0000

Couldn’t agree more and I’m glad to see it’s not just me that thinks this way. Just spent the last few weeks re-doing my website. Works beautifully in FF, Opera and Safari, but IE does some weird visual stuff. However, it doesn’t break, so I’ll probably leave it for now.

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:11:50 +0000

Thanks, David! It comes from the frustrating experience of working for designers who insist on it — - adding hours of work to a project so that a particular band of text appears the same size in Safari and IE….

Not my preferred way of spending my time!

By: David Zemens - 1955 Design

David Zemens - 1955 Design — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:59:36 +0000

Thanks for a nice overview of the process, Joe. The task is daunting enough without striving for the pixel perfect layout. Your common sense approach is a breath of fresh air.