About Chris Pollett's Web Site

Standards, browser compatibility, and accessibility

Since early 2000 attempts have been made to make this site compliant with the following standards:

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XHTML1.1 compliance attempts were begun in Spring 2002 and were completed in Spring 2003. As of 2008, XHTML1.1 is still the most advanced version of XHTML beyond the draft stage. It looks likely that HTML 5 will be HTML of the future rather than XHTML 2.0. I probably won't make any radical changes to the site until this is clear though.

In addition to all modern browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera), this site should also work on a variety of very old browsers. Except for the occassional picture, you should be able to view my site in browsers as old as Mosaic 0.6. For older browsers, a slightly different version of my pages are served; however, these pages are still XHTML 1.0 transitional compliant. My site should also work under text-only browsers such as Lynx.

Some web accessibility tests have been done on this site. All my pages were at some point [Bobby AAA approved] modulo their non-automatic user checks. If you see something that is causing an accessibility issue, please contact me and I will try to fix it.

How my site has evolved and links to archived versions.

This web site has gradually evolved over the years. The original homepage written at UCSD dates to late 1994. The links below show how this site has evolved over time:

[SJSU, 2006]
[SJSU, 2003]
[SJSU, 2002]
[UCLA, 2001]
[UCLA, 2000]
[Clark University, early 1999]
[Boston University, 1997]
[UC San Diego, early 1997]

The Internet Archive is a good place to hunt down old webpages. It allows you to surf the web as it was in a given year.

If you would like to try surfing the web using an applet based emulator of your favourite early browser check out Deja Vu. If you want to actually download your favourite old browser go to: evolt.org.

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