Cross Browser Functionality Check 1

[adamroof]

In regards to a recent post with a link to a great site, what other tools do you use to confirm your sites operation within multiple browser types?

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=h...etect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&verbose=1

is the goal in asp.net to become fully HTML 4.0 transitional as the link above states?

one of my public sites works fine and only reason i know is a fried who used firefox said its fine. another public site i helped with has some issues with FireFox. Ive done browser checks in my javascript, but beyond that...

 

[ca8msm]

There's quite a few checks you should do. There are (X)HTML checks such as:

1)

http://validator.w3.org/

2)

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/validator/

These will validate you site against the DOCTYPE that you've used (have a look at

http://alistapart.com/stories/doctype/

for different DOCTYPES that you can use and when to use them).

Then, there is CSS validation from:

1)

http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/

2)

http://www.htmlhelp.com/tools/csscheck/

and you should also do manual checks for actual design/display issues with browsers such as (there are many more but these are some of the more widely used ones):

1) IE
2) FireFox
3) Opera
4) Netscape

There are also accessibility checks that you should do (mainly for disabled users) and you can view infor on this from sites such as:

http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG1AAA-Conformance

and to answer your direct question:

is the goal in asp.net to become fully HTML 4.0 transitional as the link above states?

No, the goal is to become fully compliant with the DOCTYPE you've chosen.


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[adamroof]

very well written response and very helpful