Vinu Krishnaswamy@vinuchandar

Soundcheck: How Modern Browsers are Changing the Web

Good News: Standards

§ Current use of the term "standards-compliance" generally refers to the adherence to coding practices in relation to the use of HTML or XHTML, with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define the layout, colors, and fonts of a web page.

Reality Check: More Releases

Reality Check: More Releases

Benefits of the Modern Browser

1. Web 3.0

1. Web 3.0

Machine-Facilitated understanding of information in

order to provide a more productive and intuitive user

Experience.

2. Responsive

3. Microinteractions

Browser Support Best Practices

1. Understand Your Audience

§ What audience are you trying to reach?• Students• Corporate audience• Global audience• Internal audience

2. Consult your Analytics

• Look at what analytics for your site point to before deciding supported browsers.

• Global Trend vs Your Site

3. Research Market Leaders

• Does Google support the browsers you are considering? They dropped support for IE8, IE9 as early as 2013.

• Does Microsoft support these versions anymore? Starting Jan 2016:

• IE 9 Support only on Windows Vista

• IE 10 only on Windows Server 2012

• IE 11 only on Windows 7 and 8.1

• Chrome, Firefox auto-update.

4. Cost/Benefit Analysis

§ According to those surveyed, a single Web app costs an extra $4,200 annually to support a multibrowser scenario.

§ That cost can balloon for larger organizations. The study estimated that companies developing about 100 Web apps would face an extra$400,000 annual cost if each Web app had to be supported on

multiple browsers.

- Forrester Research

Solutions

Development Options

Development Options

Splash Page

Predictions

5 Browser Predictions for 2016

§ IE 9 & IE 10 will taper off by the end of the year.

§ Edge will grow in browser share.

§ Flexible layout options

§ Micro-interactions

§ You will still be judged on what browser you use.