Web interoperability: Difference between revisions

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'''Web Interoperabilityinteroperability''' means producing web pages viewable in standard compatible [[web browser]]s, various [[operating system]]s such as [[Microsoft Windows|Windows]], [[Macintosh]] and [[Linux]] and devices such as [[Personal computer|PC]], [[Personal digital assistant|PDA]] and [[mobile phone]] based on the latest [[web standards]].

== History ==

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This issue was known by cross browsing in [[Browser wars|browser war]] between [[Internet Explorer]] and [[Netscape]]. The Microsoft Internet Explorer was exclusive in browser market after that, but modern web browsers such as [[Mozilla Firefox]], [[Opera]] and [[Safari]] have supported web standards. Because of [[Backward compatibility|backward compatibility]] of Internet Explorer, many web pages has supported non-standard HTML tags and DOM handling script yet as well platform-defendant techniques such as [[ActiveX]]. These are very harmful for [[Web accessibility]] and [[Device Independence]].

== Elements of Web Interoperabilityinteroperability ==

* Structural and semantic markup with [[XHTML]].

* CSS based layout with layout elements such as position and float.