Web Browsers

The HTML standard is a changing standard and you want a web site that will not become outdated because it included support for older browsers.

Netscape (NS) 4.x and Internet Explorer (IE) 4.x are not supported by the inventory listing web application - Inventory App (IA). Internet stats from TheCounter.com show that both NS 4.x and IE 4.x make up less than 1% of browser usage on the internet.

When the pages of the Inventory App program and this web site are accessed by NS 4.x or IE 4.x, there is displayed a message noting that the browser you are using doesn't support CSS properly and suggest you get a browser that supports CSS.

If the CSS presentation code was not hidden from NS 4.x and IE 4.x, these browser would display the pages incorrectly as they support some CSS and some CSS they don't support correctly.

The CSS files which contains the web site presentation code are hide from both NS 4.x & IE 4.x so these outdated browsers will display the content only.

The IA web pages are XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant, CSS 2.0 compliant, and each page has been WC3 validated.

IA has passed browser testing with Internet Explorer 5.01, 5.5, 6.0sp1; Netscape 6.x.x, 7.1; Mozilla 1.7; Opera 7.0; Firefox 0.9 and Safari 1.2 .

This ensures that the IA web pages will not have display problems with the new browsers or new versions of current browsers that are being released.

The content that you see on this website and the presentation markup (code that formats that content) have been separated and tables are not used as layout tools in IA. Content is in the html pages and presentation code is put in a CSS style sheet that your browser keeps in cache. Tables are used only for displaying tabular data.

Web pages that are not compliant with W3C and are written to accommodate certain browser bugs, will look okay in the older browsers, but may not display properly in the new browsers, or new browser versions.

Web pages that are compliant with W3C standards may not display correctly in the older browsers, but will look right in the new browsers.