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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 at programmers and mostly tech-savvy users, should…
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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 file is encoded & transmitted in some Unicode…
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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 should be adding href tags to the phone numbers on…
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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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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/sitemap-index.xml I assume both are okay because…
user58733
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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 much of cpu Issues on mobile devices SEO…
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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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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 as much support as we can to retire Flash. However…
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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 upgrade these, so that our users don't have…
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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 Standards However, when I open the same site…
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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 terms of compatibility? Would it make sense to no…
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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 files, is there a way to bulk export/compile Flash…
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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 modern IE browsers enter IE7 compatibility mode on…
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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 very happy with the results. The only problem I am…
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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 compatibility mode, it is working fine with pop up…
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