Questions tagged [compatibility]
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Technical website - Should I assume that my visitors will use a modern browser?
I am in the process of creating my own website, which will include a technical blog. I want to build my website using modern technologies such as HTML5 and CSS3.
Since my website will be targetted ...
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Why use HTML entities instead of just putting Unicode characters in HTML?
Let's say I want to put a non-bland character in an HTML file; for instance, '→'. Is there any reason why I should enter it as '→' instead of just putting '→' in the HTML file? Assume my HTML ...
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Which current stock mobile browsers support linked phone numbers by default?
The better question is, are there any that currently DO NOT support auto linking of phone numbers by default? Main support for iPhone, Android, BB, Windows Phone, Palm.
I'm trying to determine if I ...
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Why is IPv6 not backward compatible with IPv4?
Also, how does it affect our websites? Do we need to shift all IPv4 websites to IPv6 or both?
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Testing websites for Firefox
What versions do you test with when testing for Firefox compatibility? Firefox 3 is a no-brainer, but do you then test for 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8?
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Is recomended to use BPG to a website?
I want to use BPG on my website, but I'm not sure wether the support is broad enough.
Maybe the javascript plugin for decoding doens't work with all browsers
Maybe the decoding process consume too ...
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Do the order of "Disallow" and "Sitemap" lines in robots.txt matter?
One can sort robots.txt this way:
User-agent: DESIRED_INPUT
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap-index.xml
Disallow: /
instead:
User-agent: DESIRED_INPUT
Disallow: /
Sitemap: https://example.com/...
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Switching off IE8 Compatibility View
I have a site which works fine when accessed from a remote web server. It runs (on IE8, which is what my organisation uses) with:
Browser mode: Internet Explorer 8
Document mode: Internet Explorer 8 ...
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How to Easily Detect if Flash Use Across Many Websites?
We're a web agency with 100+ clients, some of whom may have legacy Flash running on their websites.
With Google's aggressive move away from Flash (which we fully support) we want to give our clients ...
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How to convert Shockwave Flash 5 files to newer version
How would you go about upgrading old Shockwave Flash files to a newer version?
In my case, I have files from Shockwave Flash 5 and see that Adobe is currently on version 12. I want to be sure to ...
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Porting a Flash site to non-Flash site
I have many clients with Flash interfaces that they like quite a bit. But these things don't work on many (most?) mobile devices. This is a two part question:
If I get access to the original .fla ...
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Are there concrete benefits in using png over fonts for icons?
I recently noticed some major website (like this one) do not use font-awesome or similar projects to display their icons. Rather they use PNGs.
Any rationale for this? Does it make any difference in ...
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Why are Win7 IE browers running in IE7 mode?
On our site we currently have approx. 50% of our IE7 users running Windows 7. However, Win7 was released with IE8 meaning that something is not right. Based on this, we made the assumption that the ...
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Website only displays correctly in IE using compatibility mode?
As the resident "IT Whiz" at work (ie: I know how to use a computer) I've been asked to develop a website for our small business. I've altered a wordpress theme for the time being and the company is ...
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Which PHP hosting is better GoDaddy or 1and1? and Also domain mangement [closed]
I own a domain on GoDaddy and I bought a hosting plan from 1and1. Now my subscription is going to end and I want to renew it, but I also want to choose only one company for my web site to have both ...
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Why does Internet Explorer's Developer Tools only emulate back to IE7?
Starting with Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft provided built-in developer tools for Internet Explorer. IE8 provides IE8 Standards, IE8 Compatibility View, IE7, and Quirks Mode. IE9 provides IE9 ...
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What version of IE does Compatibility View use by default?
My understanding of IE Compatibility Mode/View is that you can specify which version of IE you want to render a domain (or set of domains) in.
But when I go to Tools >> Compatibility View ...
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Earliest browsers that support if-modified-since or if-none-match headers
Based on my observations, google and probably many others are in love with websites that include the Etag and Last-modified headers along with the if-modified-since and if-none-match header checking ...
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Tool to identify Internet Explorer rendering differences with css
I develop website using chrome and mac os as development environment.
Since my audience is pretty specific I don't feel the necessity for too much backward compatibility with IE8 and less.
However ...
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Does totally disabling cookies in my WordPress website malfunction Google Analytics?
I personally don't post any kind of external advertisements in any of my websites: Not Adsense, not anything. I just don't charge other organizations and companies to advertise in my websites and I ...
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Compatibility Issue with IE10 and IE11
I have a website that having some applets, which works without any issues in IE6-IE9. But when I tried in IE10 and IE11, it seems to be buggy. All the pages where not loading properly.
After some ...
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Running Microsoft's IE VPCs on Windows 8
I am trying to run Microsoft's VPC VMs on Windows 8 but no luck.
As you may know, Microsoft's Virtual PC software doesn't work on Windows 8. They are recommended to use their new virtualisation ...
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Host Tomcat web-app to work in IE11 with disabled compatibility mode
I have host a war file on Tomcat which created with WebLogic and ADF. I had to make little changes and now it working fine on Tomcat in all browsers except IE11.
When I run web-app with enabled IE ...
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Android browser compatibility checking
Apart from the suggestions made in How can I see what my web site looks like in various browsers?, I have actively downloaded the 3 major browsers (Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer) and I check ...
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automatically detect browser specific issues from usage statistics
Suppose you have a website that sells dog food (why not?) to people using a variety of browsers.
Is there some way to automatically be notified if sales (or some other activity) suddenly stops for a ...
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