NOTE: These slides have not been updated since 2003. They have been superseded by the book An Introduction to XML and Web Technologies Addison-Wesley, and the accompanying online material. Please see http://www.brics.dk/ixwt/ for more information. Anders Møller and Michael Schwartzbach, February 2006

THE XML REVOLUTION  -  TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

Different browsers

• 124 versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer (88.0% market share)
• 42 versions of Netscape Navigator (9.2% market share)
• 23 versions of Opera (1.2% market share)
• 204 others (1.6% market share)

• different releases
• different platforms

Well-written Web pages work well on all reasonably new browsers.

• "this page is optimized for XYZ" = "I only tested this page on XYZ"
• "this page is best viewed in 1024x768" = "my screen has resolution 1024x768"
• of course, advanced functionality (JavaScript, XSLT, ...) may require the newest browser releases

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