As you can see I had this idea of hosting my own blog. In case you wondered your here reading it. Now I thought that would be a simple thing to do just put a site onto the internet and eventually the magic that is the Google-bot or the Bing-bot (do we call it that?) would one day swoop down and make me part of the internet (I firmly believe, albeit slightly misguided that if your on a public site and not in the index then your not actually on the internet). Now I suppose before I go into my failings as a web developer I feel  that I need to justify myself. An explanation. I’m a fairly seasoned web...

When developing any web based application is pays to know exactly what your browser can do. If your developing an internal application you can make sure you maximise the website to what the browser can  support, this is Nirvana (provided the internal browser isn’t IE6, which in this case is usually is) just make sure your aware of any upgrades to the browser on the network and test early! If your working in the more common heterogeneous environment that is more common on public facing sites then understanding which browsers your going to have to support for your application is fundamental as this...