Browser-optimized Content Delivery | WebReference  Browser-
optimized Content Delivery  Browser-optimized Content Delivery
Browser and HTML features are proliferating faster than
mosquitoes in a swamp. Since different browsers support
different levels of HTML, creating a single page optimized for
all browsers can be problematic. Webmasters use the following
methods to deal with this optimum content delivery problem:
Lowest Common Denominator (LCD)  By designing your pages with
the HTML features that most browsers support you can be sure
that most people will see essentially the same thing. The idea
behind HTML is to allow a universal method of content delivery.
By sticking to strict HTML (2.0 is the version nearly all
browsers currently support) you can be assured that your pages
will appear similarly on different machines and browsers. There
are numerous efforts to quantify the LCD of current browsers.
The LCD method has one big advantage, you only have to create
one set of pages. The disadvantage of the L