July 23, 2003
Designing for the future.
The internet is moving forward, so do we design for the future or are you still stuck designing in the past. By that, I mean do you design with web standards? Designing with web standards makes it easier to design for the future. The case in point was proven while designing American Longevity and Cougar Connexions. We did all of the layouts using web standards and when it came to testing these sites in other browsers we didn’t have to change much in the code for each browser. When we tested the sites in the new apple browser safari, everything looked great. No big hiccups at all. However, when we designed for older browsers (IE 5.x) we did have to add some code and hacks. It is good to see that NN 4.7 is pretty much out of the picture, we didn’t even consider coding for that browser.
So the moral of the story is to continue to code using standards and you assure that your site will look good in modern browsers and future browser to come. At least we hope future browsers continue to follow web standards … he, hem Microsoft take note.
Blake