COI Web Standards Guidance for Browsers Testing

January 17, 2009 – 13:46 by Dani Iswara. Words count: 286.
Last updated: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 at 22:23.

Central Office of Information (COI) of The UK (United Kingdom) Government has released a Web Standards Guidance for browsers testing. They aims to provide a consistency in all its online services. The large number of Internet browsers are available now. It’d be inefficient to test our websites with all of that browsers. All we need is build our website/blog with fully standard-compliant code. Then test with a few recommended browsers.

COI said that the objective of this guidance is to ensure that our website/blog works on as many platforms/operating system (eg. Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, Windows Mobile, Palm, Symbian, Blackberry) and devices (eg. desktop, mobile devices, touchscreen, screen readers, speech readers, Braille printers, etc) as possible. Accessibility and ubiquitous world, here we come.

Website/blog which is developed with standard-compliant code (eg. X/HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc) will work on those variety of technologies. The COI Web Standards and Guidelines aims to help all users (website managers/administrators, web developers, web testers, web authors) delivering public sector websites/blog decide which selected browsers to test.

Then we don’t need to put something like

this page is best viewed with browser X

and suggest pushing users to upgrade/change their browser.

Sample of metrix testing based on BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) website is available on BBC – Future Media Standards and Guidelines. Their site is tested on IE (Trident & Ohare machine), Mozilla Firefox (Gecko-based), Chrome (Webkit-based), Opera (Presto machine), Safari (Webcore machine), Konqueror (KHTML; KDE-based), IE (Mac; Tasman-based).

And see what experts says on UK Government Browser Guidelines: Good Sense Prevails (The Web Standards Project site).

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  1. Comment by riesurya on January 31, 2009 at 20:02:22
    using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Windows XP

    Asik, dapat lagi referensi buat belajar. Tx a lot Mas Dani :)

  2. Comment by Dani Iswara on January 31, 2009 at 20:39:39
    using Mozilla Firefox 3.0.5 on Gentoo Linux

    - riesurya:
    mungkin besok2 kita hrsnya ngga ribet nyobain peramban lg :)

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