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All Web pages should look good on every browser. But how to ensure this? I hope this set of suggestions will help.
First of all, multi browser compatibility must not mean reducing used HTML to some common subset (might get even to about HTML 2.0). The idea with MBC is to use extensions in that way it doesn't hurt the other browsers. Here are some examples (this list will grow):
Tables - it's not so
easy to use tables in that way, so they don't hurt browsers that don't use
them (as for newer versions it applies to Lynx). With simple tables, this can
be done quite simply, but with more complicated ones, using attributes like
rowspan, it might be difficult. Basic idea here is to put proper combination
of spaces and forced line breaks (tag <br>) into cells. For example
given a table with few rows, each with few cells, might have additional
spaces in cells, so their contents will be separated and line breaks put at
the end of every cell that ends row. This will make text which is put in one
row on table-capable browser to be put in one line on table incapable like
Lynx. Frames - this time it's
easy - you should use <noframes> tag, and put a version of the page for
the browsers that don't use frames inside it. Precise solusions may be
various - I put there only little modified version of the document put into
main frame when browsed by frames enabled browser, others (not too nicely)
put there only a link to that document. You may also try to prepare a highly
modified version of the document, in which operations using frames are
replaced by something else.
Pictures - should not be
a problem. You only have to remember about the use of alt attribute, and put
there a text that replaces a picture well (you may even try ascii art), and
if the picture is only a gadget - leave it empty (alt="").