Html Experts: Is There Is A Special Or Secret Way To Use Html While Designing A Webpage?
For instance, if you just use “regular” HTML, will people still be able to see and use my website normally, even if they are not using Internet Explorer? For example, I always use Firefox. Other people use things like AOL or Opera to browse the web. Thanks for your help!
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You mean you weren’t aware that html is a universal language?
Yes, it will work. HTML is a universal webpage language, it’s browser independent. There’s nothing special about Internet Explorer, if something basic works in it, assume it works in all browsers.
Some things are browser specific, but there is no such thing as a browser specific web page type. HTML, PHP, ASP, JavaScript, they’re all browser independent.
There’s no such thing as a silly question. Don’t worry; HTML will work across all browsers. However, bear in mind that HTML does have different ‘dialects’ depending on whether you’re using strict, transitional, or frameset (this goes in the doc type declaration or DTD at the top of a html page) plus older browsers such as IE6 can be quirky and not show websites exactly as they should. Just use strict and XHTML (which is a cleaner, stricter version of HTML) and you should be okay in most modern browsers. Visit http://www.freewebtutorial.co.uk (web standards section) for more info.
Hope this helps.
Properly using HTML and adhering to the current web standards in coding HTML and CSS will go a long way to ensuring that your pages look like what you want them to in browsers. To make sure that you ARE browser compatible, be sure to use a PROPER DocType on every page or you’ll wonder why your page looks fine in one browser, but not in others. Use Firefox to determine how your pages look. It is the only browser that comes close to being fully CSS 2.1 compliant. People like Internet Explorer because IE doesn’t care about sloppy coding.
Ron
The simple answer is that HTML is what all browsers read, so if you code in HTML they will all be able to handle it fine.
The complex answer is that all browsers interpret HTML differently. That is why sometimes a page just won’t work with IE and it does with Firefox and vice versa. So it is a good idea to test your pages with all the popular browsers.
No. Just use HTML and it’ll work. If you want to be more specific, use XHTML, which is the new HTML standard. Therefore, any and all browsers that use that standard will display your webpage correctly.
No you will need a domain.