W3C – JDM Digital

January 2018

The Definitive Website Pre-Launch Checklist

You’ve spent a lot of time building your new website and now it’s time to migrate it from staging to its new home. There are a staggering number of ways to screw this up.

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April 2015

Don’t Sweat the Domain Name

The days of keyword-stuffed domain names like “DallasSEOAgency.com” are coming to an end. Just last week, Google announced another update to their mobile search engine results page — no more domain names. On the heals of their last mobile SERP update, the “Mobile-Friendly” label, adding structured data names rather than using the URL structure is …

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Article

August 2014

A Brief History of IE Compatibility Mode

Microsoft introduced “Compatibility Mode” to allow really old websites built for Internet Explorer (IE) to display correctly in more standards-compliant versions. Since then, IE users and web designers have had the almost impossible challenge of “backwards compatibility.” Here’s a brief history of how we got stuck with Compatibility Mode.

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September 2012

Why Firefox should be the default

I was reading a post on Mozilla’s blog about why you should make Firefox your default browser and I thought I’d post MY (more realistic) reasons why. I’ve also written a little bit about the other standards-based browsers out there (Safari and Chrome). As professional website design and developers, we HATE Internet Explorer. There are …

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Article

October 2011

Does JDM support IE6?

The short answer is no. JDM no longer supports backwards compatibility with IE6. That’s not to say our work isn’t compatible. It just means we won’t guarantee it. How did we fall out of love with IE6? I’ll let the JDM Labs team explain.

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March 2011

W3C Validation Nuances

Is there an argument to be bade against W3C valid markup? Some insist perfectly valid markup is a requirement. We’re not sure that’s true.

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