Technical Sheet

This website was developed with a clear focus towards standard compliance, hence the markup adheres to XHTML 1.0 Strict whenever possible and the stylesheet is CSS 2.1 compliant. The customized interface runs on Umbraco v.4.

Compatibility testing was done according to the table below with a clear objective of having a minimum baseline of browsers correctly supported while having in mind the upgrade taking place across the University of York's computers, the main target audience for this website.

Bugs:

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  • [General] Home menu link does not work. (15/09/2009)
  • [General] Main menu does word-wrapping.
  • [IE7] Space of about 4px between footer and window.
  • [IE7] Footer hides content if it overflows beyond a specific point. (15/09/2009)
  • [IE7] Submenu is rendered as full width boxes stacked up vertically. (17/09/2009)
  • [IE7] Vertical scrollbar even when not needed.

Target compatibility testing:

  • Internet Explorer version 8 and 7
  • Mozilla Firefox 3.x
  • Google Chrome 2.x
  • Opera 10.x

Best-effort:

  • Internet Explorer 6
  • Nokia S60 Browser
  • Other mobile devices

Past versions:

Erasmus Society - Homepage v1