Forward Compatibility

[peach]

I think this is an important issue especially if you're a web publishers. You want your site to work 10 years from now, even if you forget all about it.

These are some things I do to make sure my site won't break:

-make sure the text can scale up and down without breaking the site, so that you can zoom into the site without breaking it.
-Coding to conform web standards
-Using my own server

What do you have to add to this list?

 

[Charlie]

Have the (C) auto update to the current year.

 

[J-Tag]

Have the (C) auto update to the current year.

hah good one.

<?php echo date('Y'); ?>

 

[Stanley]

hehe, awesome hack.

I dont think it's possible to keep your site future-proof.

In 2008 Microsoft will update their IE and as usual, it will break all the code that works with IE 6 or 7 or whatever the prior version will be.

 

[Nathan]

Keeping it simple. If you go into all the gimmickry it stands that it might not work in a few years if left alone.

If you want it future proof keep it at plain old HTML that's always going to be the basis of the web

 

[peach]

hehe, awesome hack.

I dont think it's possible to keep your site future-proof.

In 2008 Microsoft will update their IE and as usual, it will break all the code that works with IE 6 or 7 or whatever the prior version will be.

nah it won't be so bad, ie7 will be standards compliant and won't read your ie6 targetted * selector hacks so if you did code you sites to conform webstandards, you'll be fine.

 

[a.titus1]

Keep your css code w3c compliant. Browsers seem to finally be switching over to follow some standards so that should help with display isses.