Chapter 14. Developing cross-browser strategies

This chapter covers

  • Developing reusable, cross-browser JavaScript code
  • Analyzing cross-browser issues needing to be tackled
  • Tackling those issues in a smart way

Anyone who’s spent time developing on-page JavaScript code knows that a wide range of pain points exist when it comes to ensuring that the code works flawlessly across a set of supported browsers. These considerations span from providing basic development for immediate needs, to planning for future browser releases, all the way to reusing code on web pages that have yet to be created.

Coding for multiple browsers is a nontrivial task that must be balanced according to the development methodologies that you have in place, as well as the ...

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