Best Viewed With Any Browser

If you were referred here from a web site bearing the "Best Viewed With Any Browser" graphic or text, it means that the site author agrees with the campaign and is participating in the effort to discourage browser specific web design. Read below for more information on what it's all about, and to see if you'd like to participate.

If you've come to this page, you're probably curious about the "Best Viewed With Any Browser" button on it. Here's my explanation. I am very unhappy with the current trend towards web sites designing only for specific browsers and ignoring others. It's extremely annoying to me to visit a web site and to find that I've been rejected until I come back with Netscape or Internet Explorer. It's also annoying to visit web sites that allow you in with any browser, but rely heavily on tags only supported in a few popular browsers, or leave out support for text browsers.

I would like to reverse this trend. I know I can't change the web by myself, but every little bit counts, and this is my vote for a platform independent, non browser specific World Wide Web. So, I have displayed the "Best Viewed With Any Browser" button to emphasize that I try to create my web sites to be viewable in all browsers, and totally functional. Some pages may look better in some browsers than others, but they should all be readable by any browser. I try to only use browser specific tags in appropriate manners, and only if there's a good reason for their use, and in the cases in which I've used browser specific programming, such as image maps, frames, Java, etc., I have done by best to provide alternatives for browsers that don't support them. Please let me know if you come across anything on my web pages that doesn't work in your browser (be specific about what browser you're using and what didn't work) and I'll try and fix it.

I invite anyone who wants to join in this effort to go ahead and copy the graphic and use it in your own pages. If you feel like improving the look of the graphic or creating others, please do! (and let me know if I can provide that graphic for others to use) I am not a graphic artist and I know the one I created doesn't look great. I would prefer if you linked the graphic to this page, so that people know what it's all about, or create your own page about this campaign, but if you don't want to that's cool with me too.

Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions by sending me an Email. You may also leave your comments on our GuestBook.

For more information and :

• BrowserCaps (listings of what levels of support different browsers have)
  
• BrowserWatch (browser news and some statistics)

Other sites with pages related to this campaign:

• Best Viewed With Any Browser
• Pages Enhanced for Lynx
• Lynx Appreciation
• Bugs in Netscape and I-Explorer

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