This new book from Packt Publishing & Nirav Mehta is a quick and effective introduction to developing websites specifically targeted at mobile device users. I say “users” for a reason — one of the strongest advantages to the book is a strong focus on considering your user and their needs as a key element of mobile web development. My overall reaction to this book was positive. It covers a wide variety of key issues for mobile web programming in an […]
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What is “Cross-browser compatibility?”
Here’s the first clue: it’s not creating a pixel-perfect replication of your ideal version of a site in all browsers. In fact, cross-browser compatibility ultimately has very little to do with what a web site looks like, and a lot more to do with how it functions. It also has relatively little to do with browsers, and perhaps could better be explained as multiple user-agent compatibility. “Compatibility” (in this context) is not a term which means “looks and behaves identically” […]
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