Its true what they say – “You can please all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time.”. But this is not acceptable for the attitude of Web Developers! At Digerati Studio Limited, we are committed to providing quality web standard multi-browser accessible websites! But with that comes the challenge to achieve just that!
With the growing rise in popularity and power of Apple in the computing industry, I’m sure a lot of Web Developers are breathing a sigh of relief. However, Windows are soon to unleash their new operating system after many years of XP. With this new release sees the introduction of Internet Explorer 7, which promises to be compliant to W3C web standards.
Its a chicken and egg situation! Do I start from IE and translate to Safari and Firefox, or do I start with Safari and Firefox and translate to IE? Every Web Developer have their own method and theories as to what the correct answer is. I’m not out to make that conclusion. Moreover, I intend to present the joys and frustrations that I, and many other Web Developers face day in – day out!
With the world becoming more and more web savvy, the demand for performance from web based applications and sites are becoming higher and higher! Gone are the days where websites were purely an electronic yellow pages for businesses! Now one can perform almost any function from a web page. With this increase in exposure to more and more people, comes another challenge. Web Developers are now not only required to create multi-functional websites for different operating systems and machines, whether it be a mobile device or desktop computer, they are also required to enable their site to be accessible to anyone.
It is interesting to note that governmental bodies and larger corporations are under increasing scrutiny to comply to accessibility laws. And rightly so! So with this weight of responsibility and consumer demand why would anybody want to be a Web Developer? There lies my point, that it is a challenge, but it is actually really fun! Though every website poses it’s unique challenge and frustrating bug, the satisfaction from de-bugging a site and producing beautifully crafted websites is in itself satisfaction to fuel me to keep building!