Browsing category: Web Standards

Google Chrome bumps Safari to become third-placed browser

Published on - Jan 5, 2010

Chrome’s steadily improving user base has seen the browsing platform gain a further 0.7 percent of the market in December, pushing its total share for 2009 to 4.63 percent and outperforming the 4.46 percent logged by Safari.

This really caught my eye, I enjoy seeing this: Internet Explorer’s gradual month-on-month decline continued in December, with the platform falling from 63.62 percent to 62.69 percent.

Read more: http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201001/5030/Chrome-bumps-Safari-to-become-third-placed-browser#ixzz0bl35Zsbt

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Layout bugs

Published on - Dec 29, 2009

Please excuse some layout issues for the Internet Explorer users. I haven't had a chance to test this web site with IE6, 7, 8. I now have access to a Windows PC this morning and was able to test it out and as expected there are some IE issues. Please bare with me as I work out the bugs for IE.

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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Web Standards

Published on - Dec 28, 2009

There have been many different versions of HTML since the World Wide Web was invented in the early days. The “rules” for using each version are encapsulated in the standards published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The standards dictate the tags publishers are allowed to use (and in what order), and how web browsers and user agents should interpret those tags. For example, page headers should be indicated as such by placing them in <h*> tags, paragraphs should be wrapped in <p> tags, lists wrapped in <ul> or <ol> tags and so on. The essential point is that because search engine indexing mechanisms easily spider standards-based, structural HTML, you should give them what they want whenever possible. Think of a single web page as word document. Every document has a title, heading, and a body of the document, the same rules apply for a web page, but in a different form.

Use Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to control the look and layout of your web site. In other words, design the way the structural markup looks in a completely separate document (e.g. the <h*> tags, mentioned above, can be styled to look almost any way you choose ...

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