# Web interoperability

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'''Web interoperability''' is producing web pages viewable with nearly every device and [web browser](/source/web_browser). There have been various projects to improve web interoperability, for example the [Web Standards Project](/source/Web_Standards_Project), Mozilla's Technology Evangelism<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/ |title=Mobile/Evangelism - MozillaWiki |author= |date= |publisher= |accessdate=12 August 2016}}</ref> and Web Standards Group,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://webstandardsgroup.org/ |title=Web Standards Group (WSG) |date= |publisher= |accessdate=12 August 2016}}</ref> and the Web Essential Conference.

==History==
The term was first used in the Web Interoperability Pledge,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.w3.org/Promotion/WIP/|title=WIP -- Web Interoperability Pledge |accessdate=12 August 2016}}</ref> which is a promise to adhere to current [HTML](/source/HTML) recommendations as promoted by the [World Wide Web Consortium](/source/World_Wide_Web_Consortium) (W3C).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Understanding Website Usability and Conversions |url=https://www.netpaths.net/understanding-website-usability-conversions/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |language=en-US}}</ref>  The WIP was not a W3C initiative but it was started by and has been run by [ZDNet](/source/ZDNet) AnchorDesk. 

This issue was known as "cross browsing" in the [browser war](/source/browser_war) between [Internet Explorer](/source/Internet_Explorer) and [Netscape](/source/Netscape). Microsoft's Internet Explorer was the dominant browser after that, but modern web browsers such as [Mozilla Firefox](/source/Mozilla_Firefox), [Opera](/source/Opera_(web_browser)) and [Safari](/source/Safari_(web_browser)) have become dominant, and support additional web standards beyond what Internet Explorer supports.<ref>{{Cite web |title=What are the Characteristics of a Good Website? |url=https://hatchandvox.com/web-design/characteristics-of-good-website/ |access-date=2024-06-22 |language=en-GB}}</ref> Because of Internet Explorer's [backwards compatibility](/source/backward_compatibility), some web pages have continued to use non-standard HTML tags, DOM handling scripts, and platform-specific technologies such as [ActiveX](/source/ActiveX), which could potentially be harmful for [Web accessibility](/source/Web_accessibility) and [device independence](/source/device_independence).

==Elements==
* Structural and semantic markup with [HTML](/source/XHTML)
* [CSS](/source/CSS)-based layout with layout elements that resize based on screen size

==See also==
* [Computer accessibility](/source/Computer_accessibility)
* [Multimodal interaction](/source/Multimodal_interaction)
* [Forward compatibility](/source/Forward_compatibility)

==References==
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Category:Web design
Category:Interoperability

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