Browser specific code

September 28, 2006

Many web browsers support their own set of code and components, as well as those outlined as Standard or Valid HTML.

Whilst these components were written to add new and exciting features to websites, and in many cases do work with all leading browsers, they can provoke incompatibility issues, and therefore your pages may not display correctly, or at all, in incompatible browsers.

This can also provide problems in SEO, as if the search spiders don’t understand your platform specific code, they will not read it, and not count it as page content.

Where possible, it is advisable to write your pages to comply with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Standards.

Mike Irving - Web Developer