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* Browsers you’ve never heard of | * Browsers you’ve never heard of | ||
* Browsers that get renamed | * Browsers that get renamed | ||
* Browsers that switch rendering engines | |||
* Robots and search engines | * Robots and search engines | ||
* Web-enabled desktop applications | |||
* … | * … | ||
==Developing for Web Standards== | ==Developing for Web Standards== | ||
In a perfect world, authors would simply write for the web standards and every browser would | In a perfect world, authors would simply write for the web standards and every browser would “just work.” Unfortunately, we live in a world where all browsers have bugs and holes in their standards support (some more than others), and there are significant segments of the world's web users who continue to use older versions of browsers that are even '''more buggy''' and have more limited support for web standards than the current generation of browsers. | ||
<!-- Users also run their browsers in a wide variety of configurations, so authors cannot rely on their personal installation habits --> | <!-- Users also run their browsers in a wide variety of configurations, so authors cannot rely on their personal installation habits --> | ||