New figures for 2008 are emerging that indicate the continued rise in popularity of the Mozilla open source browser, Firefox. The most recent figures available from W3Schools (stats available here) indicate that the grip Microsoft has held over the internet viewing community with its Internet Explorer browsers is steadily slipping.
Recently we’ve been dealing more and more with questions of cross browser compatability.
Ensuring that our web sites and applications operate well in various web browsers is an essential aspect of good web design. However, web browsers change regularly with updated versions often introducing new features which differ significantly from those of earlier versions. Added to this is the fact that browser popularity is ever-evolving; witness the demise of Netscape and the progressive increase in the use of Firefox.
While we have always ensured that our web sites and applications work across a range of browsers it is timely to establish a more formal series of standards applying to browser compatability.