Forgive me if I sound stupid, but I'm trying to figure out what book to buy to learn web site design. I need to create websites that will work for both windows and mac. Thanks.
2007-05-14 11:07:17 · 10 answers · asked by Gypsy Girl 7 in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
first of all to get everything to look the same under all browsers under all situation you should probably program the whole site in xhtml then use css to make everything site the way you want it to. Cause anyway you cut it you are going to have to make certain hacks to make it works under each browser. So you right a javascript if statement that determines which browser you have then includes a css style sheet based on that. That is the only true way around it.
2007-05-14 12:31:16 · answer #1 · answered by bobard_69 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well it depends on how you'll build the web page. Safari is one the best browsers out there that doesn't only support almost all the W3C community web standards but also integrate the newest technology at their full potential (like for example Web 2.0, or khtml).
When designing a web page, if you're not sure if the code you're using won't be universal, just check with the W3C documentation or MSDN or any other related websites and you'll find there on what browsers it will work and on which it won't.
Following the standards imposed by W3C community seems like the best ideea, and many browsers already do this (including the popular ones like Firefox Opera..). Unfortunately Internet Explorer doesn't follow them mainly because huge part of its code it's closed source therefore it can't run on any other browser so making it a standard is almost impossible.
2007-05-14 11:21:12 · answer #2 · answered by agent-X 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Open Source Web Design is a site to download free web design templates that you can modify: www.oswd.org
I rely on Opera 9.2 for the best indication of cross-browser compatibilty. It has Windows, Linux and Mac versions, and if your pages look good in Opera, you can be confident about Safari.
Try the lastest build of Opera, free from http://my.opera.com/desktopteam/blog
which supports all major Web standards currently in use, including HTML 4.01, CSS 2.1, XHTML 1.1, WML 2.0, ECMAScript, DOM 2 and SVG 1.1 basic.
For when you get really serious, Opera now includes a developer console that can be added into the browser with many new features. The new tools include DOM inspector, JavaScript inspector, CSS editor and HTTP header inspector.
Check out Dev Opera which is a community resource site where developers can share tips, tricks, extensions and more.
http://dev.opera.com/
2007-05-14 11:35:11 · answer #3 · answered by pliget 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Standards-compliant HTML will work with all browsers. It's only when you get into non-std stuff that you start tripping over stuff like Firefox doesn't support it but Safari does.
2007-05-14 11:11:03 · answer #4 · answered by nurse_spratchet 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I suggest using Mozilla Firefox.
2016-04-01 01:15:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
html would only work with internet explore. if you want to create websites that will work for both windows and mac go with PERL. PERL works with both
2007-05-14 11:11:49 · answer #6 · answered by Java 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes, all browsers should recognize anything authored in html. (its not programming).
2007-05-14 11:11:21 · answer #7 · answered by arus.geo 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It should work for both.
2007-05-14 11:10:35 · answer #8 · answered by delaneythehorsegirl 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Try this link
http://www.w3schools.com/html/
2007-05-14 11:10:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
yes
2007-05-14 11:09:59 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋