One North Architect Vinu Krishnaswamy gives his perspective on the evolving landscape of web browsers and some best practices for cross-browser support of your digital assets. He concludes with a look at five browser predictions for 2016. From the 2015 Experience Lab: Digital Working in Concert. To watch the recording of this presentation, visit: https://youtu.be/VRVtxAczhbE

1. Vinu Krishnaswamy
@vinuchandar

2. Soundcheck: How Modern
Browsers are Changing the Web

10. Good News: Standards
§ Current use of the term "standards-compliance"
generally refers to the adherence to coding
practices in relation to the use of HTML or XHTML,
with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to define the
layout, colors, and fonts of a web page.

11. Reality Check: More Releases

12. Reality Check: More Releases

13. Benefits of the Modern Browser

14. 1. Web 3.0

15. 1. Web 3.0
Machine-Facilitated understanding of information in
order to provide a more productive and intuitive user
Experience.

16. 2. Responsive

17. 3. Microinteractions

18. Browser Support Best Practices

19. 1. Understand Your Audience
§ What audience are you trying to reach?
• Students
• Corporate audience
• Global audience
• Internal audience

20. 2. Consult your Analytics
• Look at what analytics for
your site point to before
deciding supported
browsers.
• Global Trend vs Your Site

21. 3. Research Market Leaders
• Does Google support the browsers you are considering?
They dropped support for IE8, IE9 as early as 2013.
• Does Microsoft support these versions anymore? Starting
Jan 2016:
• IE 9 Support only on Windows Vista
• IE 10 only on Windows Server 2012
• IE 11 only on Windows 7 and 8.1
• Chrome, Firefox auto-update.

22. 4. Cost/Benefit Analysis
§ According to those surveyed, a single Web app costs
an extra $4,200 annually to support a multibrowser scenario.
§ That cost can balloon for larger organizations. The study estimated
that companies developing about 100 Web apps would face an extra
$400,000 annual cost if each Web app had to be supported on
multiple browsers.
- Forrester Research

23. Solutions

24. Development Options

25. Development Options

26. Splash Page

27. Predictions

28. 5 Browser Predictions for 2016
§ IE 9 & IE 10 will taper off by the end of the year.
§ Edge will grow in browser share.
§ Flexible layout options
§ Micro-interactions
§ You will still be judged on what browser you use.