Most people, if they have heard of JavaScript at all, know it as the web scripting language that allows web pages to have nice effects on them. But not may people know that JavaScript is quietly taking over the world…
Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) has been the bane of web designers and developers lives for the last 7 years, thanks to it’s poor support for web standards and it’s buggy implementation of the W3C specifications. Now, with the release last year of IE7 and the upcoming release of IE8, the number of people using IE6 is finally dipping.
Many clients who have never heard of web standards, or have no idea about what they may mean to them, their website, and ultimately their business. This first part of a two-part mini-series gives some background information and history on the topic.