Comments on: IE7 And Firefox 2.0: What Do The New Browsers Mean For Developers And SEOs? http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/ie7-and-firefox-2/ Helping you build search engine friendly websites Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:17:10 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Steven Bradley http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/ie7-and-firefox-2/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Steven Bradley Wed, 01 Nov 2006 06:39:51 +0000 http://www.vanseodesign.com/blog/uncategorized/ie7-and-firefox-20-what-do-the-new-browsers-mean-for-developers-and-seos/#comment-291 I assume it's going to open up RSS to an entire new audience. It may have become commonplace to us, but there are many who would only return blank stares if you asked them what's their favorite RSS feed. For the few minutes I did have IE7 working I thought the RSS support was really good. It was a grayed out icon on the toolbar until you landed on a page that had an RSS feed. Then it turned the familiar orange. It was hard to miss and I think it's going to bring RSS to the mainstream. I think as webmasters and SEOs we often forget we're comfortable around and familiar with technology than many have yet to hear about. I assume it’s going to open up RSS to an entire new audience. It may have become commonplace to us, but there are many who would only return blank stares if you asked them what’s their favorite RSS feed.

For the few minutes I did have IE7 working I thought the RSS support was really good. It was a grayed out icon on the toolbar until you landed on a page that had an RSS feed. Then it turned the familiar orange. It was hard to miss and I think it’s going to bring RSS to the mainstream. I think as webmasters and SEOs we often forget we’re comfortable around and familiar with technology than many have yet to hear about.

]]> By: Matt Johnson http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/ie7-and-firefox-2/comment-page-1/#comment-290 Matt Johnson Wed, 25 Oct 2006 16:03:41 +0000 http://www.vanseodesign.com/blog/uncategorized/ie7-and-firefox-20-what-do-the-new-browsers-mean-for-developers-and-seos/#comment-290 One thing i am looking forward to is seeing what effect IE7 has on the amount of people taking advantage of RSS feeds. I have always got the impression that only techy types used RSS or knew what RSS was. But with IE7 delivering RSS functionality to the masses i predict a huge increase in the amount of people using it.. Which can only be good for webmasters who provide feeds on thier site. One thing i am looking forward to is seeing what effect IE7 has on the amount of people taking advantage of RSS feeds. I have always got the impression that only techy types used RSS or knew what RSS was. But with IE7 delivering RSS functionality to the masses i predict a huge increase in the amount of people using it.. Which can only be good for webmasters who provide feeds on thier site.

]]> By: Steven Bradley http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/ie7-and-firefox-2/comment-page-1/#comment-289 Steven Bradley Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:45:33 +0000 http://www.vanseodesign.com/blog/uncategorized/ie7-and-firefox-20-what-do-the-new-browsers-mean-for-developers-and-seos/#comment-289 I agree about focusing on people as opposed to search engines. It'll be interesting to see what happens to the market share for MSN. I would assume it will go up somewhat though how much I'm not really sure. It will be there by default for a rather larger audeince, but we are all creatures of habit and if your home page is Google, you might still be using their search engine. I use the underscore hack on most of my sites and only for a few things. Mostly _height to get a working min-height thing going for IE. I've sometimes used it sometimes when Firefox and IE simply won't agree t display something exactly the same and I need it to. Using the underscore allows me to server a different value for any css property. Looked like IE7 was either letting me get away with that hack of ignoring it, but adhering to the same standard as Firefox. I don't use it often. I find if you code to the standards and get things working in a browser like Firefox or Opera first and then tweak for IE at points along the way, there's very little you need to hack. Some things, but it's probably down to a half dozen lines of code at most now, if even that many. I agree about focusing on people as opposed to search engines. It’ll be interesting to see what happens to the market share for MSN. I would assume it will go up somewhat though how much I’m not really sure. It will be there by default for a rather larger audeince, but we are all creatures of habit and if your home page is Google, you might still be using their search engine.

I use the underscore hack on most of my sites and only for a few things. Mostly _height to get a working min-height thing going for IE. I’ve sometimes used it sometimes when Firefox and IE simply won’t agree t display something exactly the same and I need it to. Using the underscore allows me to server a different value for any css property. Looked like IE7 was either letting me get away with that hack of ignoring it, but adhering to the same standard as Firefox. I don’t use it often.

I find if you code to the standards and get things working in a browser like Firefox or Opera first and then tweak for IE at points along the way, there’s very little you need to hack. Some things, but it’s probably down to a half dozen lines of code at most now, if even that many.

]]> By: Yuri http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/ie7-and-firefox-2/comment-page-1/#comment-288 Yuri Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:57:44 +0000 http://www.vanseodesign.com/blog/uncategorized/ie7-and-firefox-20-what-do-the-new-browsers-mean-for-developers-and-seos/#comment-288 I'd expect the sites that used the Holly star hack (the * html one) would be disfigured in IE7. However, if CSS is standards compliant, I doubt there will be huge problems. I doubt that IE7 is a fully compliant browser, too, but that's another story. Don't think we need to rush to MSN. It still has quite a different audience there. Not to mention that we should focus on <a href="http://www.improvetheweb.com/creating-natural-websites/" rel="nofollow">the humans</a>, which will allow our sites to rank well in all the search engines. I’d expect the sites that used the Holly star hack (the * html one) would be disfigured in IE7. However, if CSS is standards compliant, I doubt there will be huge problems. I doubt that IE7 is a fully compliant browser, too, but that’s another story.

Don’t think we need to rush to MSN. It still has quite a different audience there. Not to mention that we should focus on the humans, which will allow our sites to rank well in all the search engines.

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