Which technology is being used to access the University website?
Understanding which technology is being used to access the University website is very important as we need to ensure an optimum experience for as many users as possible.
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Browser wars 2016
We are presented with a plethora of options when it comes to browsers and devices to access the web with, but which ones do the world at large use? Does this make a difference in how we design and build websites? This…
Don’t break the back button
4 design patterns that violate back-button expectations One of the biggest usability faux-pas we can commit is “breaking” the back button. The back button is by far the most commonly used function of a web browser, and…
Why the launch is just the start, who cares about browsers, and usability myths
Throw out your website’s specification Paul Boag argues that creating a website specification up-front is not the correct way of going about a web project: …they are often presented to the development team (either an…
How Safari became the number one browser at St Andrews
Last week I logged into Google Analytics to take a look at browser statistics for the University website. I was surprised to discover that Safari is now the most popular browser among visitors to the University…
My favourite Web developer add-ons for Firefox
Mozilla released Firefox 4.0 on Tuesday—it has already been downloaded 16,041,437 times; that’s about 92 downloads a second!— and there is a lot to commend it for: a clean look, that’s not too far away from both Google…
Saying goodbye to Internet Explorer 6
Today, Microsoft launched a big push aimed at “Moving the world off Internet Explorer 6”. IE6 Countdown aims to educate people about why they need to upgrade their browsers. The target is for IE6 to account for less…
PDF problems? Check your filenames
We have been contacted a couple of times recently by content maintainers who were concerned that some users of the website were unable to open PDF files. Our users have particularly been having problems opening some…
What browsers have our visitors been using this year?
The topic of which Web browsers are the most popular came up at our weekly Web team meeting this morning. So I went away and did a little digging in our Google Analytics account. (Bear in mind that I have no degree…
Should we still be supporting Internet Explorer 6?
Every couple of months the same topic of conversation comes up in the Web team office: should we still be supporting Internet Explorer 6? The answer so far has always been a resigned yes, but that may not be the case…