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It’s Better that Your Site Looks a Little Different in Different Browsers

September 01, 2011

Paul Boag of Boagworld wrote a concise article detailing the benefits of a website that looks different on older browsers:

If you remain unconvinced, take a look at this analogy from Nicholas Zakas:

Web browser is to web page as TV is to TV show.
Browsers as consumption device.
TV as consumption device.
Old browsers are like black and white TVs.
New browsers are like HD TVs.
This is how TV handles our problem.
This would be silly, yet this is what web developers have been doing.

This entry is essentially a simplified reblog of Paul Irish’s post, Tiered, Adaptive Front-end Experiences.

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