If you have ever surfed the net, watched a video on YouTube, done your internet banking, or checked your emails online, you have used and experienced the web through what is known as a Web Browser. In fact you are using one right now! Basically it is a window, which allows you to 'browse' the web. Most half savvy users, will be aware of what a web browser is, or have been told by a friend, to use a particular browser, because it is faster, more supportive, and better experience when downloading web pages, and you have just obliged, taking their greater expertise for granted.

These days, browsers are pushing new and higher levels of development, but often developers and web desingers, and left behind, making website backwards compatible for browsers such as IE6, almost 10 years old, somewhat equivalent to 40 years in internet years, and leaving the leading websites suffering, without being able to use the latest and greatest in technologies.

Most good developers will take into consideration backwards compatibility and how your website appears on other browser platforms, but as a precaution it is always worth asking about what they are taking into consideration for compatibility, and weather they are not including or catering for certain browsers and why.

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