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Can Your Site Survive Firefox? Thursday July 29th

Yesterday I talked about the browser FireFox as a user point of view, but what about the Web Designers? Cross-browser compatibility isn’t a think from the past and the popularity of FireFox will probably make you sweat a bit more :-) .

Here’s a quote from Brian Livingston’s article “Can Your Site Survive Firefox?” :

…you shouldn’t let IE’s current dominance lull you into testing your site’s compatibility only with that one browser. Even one of Firefox’s harshest critics, Michael Horowitz, says the new browser will get big fast. “I would think at least 10 percent” of Web surfers will be using Firefox within 12 months of its release, he said in a telephone interview.

And for those of you who are still not convince that 10% make a difference, or those who are looking to persuade your client to invest in your time :

It could be a lot cheaper for you to make some coding changes in your HTML than it would be for you to watch a significant percentage of your customers flee to other sites.

Keep those clients and contracts coming in…

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