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Note: This page was written by Cari D. Burstein to express the sentiment behind
the "Viewable With Any Browser" campaign. If you were referred here from a web
site bearing the "Viewable With Any Browser" themed graphic or text, it means
that the site author agrees with the campaign and is participating in the effort
to discourage browser specific web design. Read below for more information on
what it's all about, and to see if you'd like to participate.

"Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web
page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had
very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another
word processor, or another network."
  -- Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996

If you've come to this page, you're probably curious about the "Viewable With
Any Browser" themed button on it. Here's my explanation. I am very unhappy with
the current trend towards web sites designing only for specific browsers and
ignoring others. It's extremely annoying to me to visit a web site and to find
that I've been rejected until I come back with Netscape or Internet Explorer.
It's also annoying to visit web sites that allow you in with any browser, but
rely heavily on tags only supported in a few popular browsers, or leave out
support for text browsers.

I would like to reverse this trend. I know I can't change the web by myself, but
every little bit counts, and this is my vote for a platform independent,
non-browser specific World Wide Web. So, I have displayed the "Viewable With Any
Browser" button to emphasize that I try to create my web sites to be viewable in
all browsers, and totally functional. Some pages may look better in some
browsers than others, but they should all be readable by any browser. I try to
only use browser specific tags in appropriate manners, and only if there's a
good reason for their use, and in the cases in which I've used tags which only
some browsers support, such as image maps, frames, Java, etc., I have done my
best to utilize the graceful degradability options available in HTML or provided
alternatives for browsers that don't support them. Please let me know if you
come across anything on my web pages that doesn't work in your browser (be
specific about what browser you're using and what didn't work) and I'll try to
fix it.

I invite anyone who wants to join in this effort to go ahead and copy any of the
many graphics provided by participants in the campaign, which are available on
the Any Browser Graphics page. If you feel like creating other graphics for the
campaign, please do! (and let me know if I can provide that graphic for others
to use). I would prefer if you linked the graphic to this page, so that people
know what it's all about, or create your own page about this campaign, but if
you don't want to that's cool with me too.

Here is a sample bit of html you can use (with appropriate modifications) if you
like:

<p><a href="http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/"><img
src="path-to-graphic/graphicname" width="graphic-width-in-pixels"
height="graphic-height-in-pixels" alt="Viewable With Any Browser" /></a></p>

Note: You should choose one of the graphics from the Any Browser Graphics page
and copy it to your web site directory, and modify the above code to match your
setup and the graphic you've chosen. Don't link directly to the graphic on my
server if you can help it, because it will slow the loading of your page, create
more stress on my server, and if I have to move the file, you could find that
your link stops working suddenly.

If you would rather not display a graphic on your site, but would like to let
people know that your site is designed to work with any browser, you might want
to just add a text link somewhere on your site that says something along the
lines of "Viewable With Your Favorite Browser" or "Best Viewed With Any Browser"
(or whatever you want to say that reflects your approach). It would be nice if
you would link this text to this page or if you would create your own page
describing the campaign so that people who want to know about it can find more
information, and perhaps design their own sites to be viewable by everyone. You
may want to visit the Any Browser Graphics page to look for other campaign
slogans that have been provided by campaign participants.

There are two main reasons to put the graphic and/or text on your site if you
design web sites that are viewable in any browser:

 * To let your visitors know that you are making an effort to make your site
   usable by everyone.
 * To encourage other people to design their sites so they are viewable in all
   browsers.

There are many useful resources throughout the web for accessible design. You
can find some in the links section.

If you come across sites which aren't accessible and you would like to encourage
them to make them viewable by any browser, it is a good idea to send them a
message. There are some example letters available on this site.

I hope you'll join in the effort to discourage browser specific web design and
help protect freedom of choice for all web users.

Let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.


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