About Aaron M. Bond [dot] COM

Standards Compliance and Browser Compatibility

Aaron M. Bond [dot] COM is built using Transitional XHTML 1.0. All styles on the pages are presented in standard-compliant CSS 2.1, with the exception of conditional information that only appears on non-standard browsers (Internet Explorer 6 and 7)*. All standards-compliant browsers should render this site properly.

Other than legacy sections of the site that are no longer being updated, this site employs tableless design. Tables are only used to display data and are not used as a design implement.

The following browsers have been tested with this site:

Firefox 3
Renders properly.
Google Chrome 1
Renders properyly.
Apple Safari 3
Renders properly.
Opera 9
Renders properly.
Internet Explorer 7
Renders properly (uses some non-standard conditional CSS).
Internet Explorer 6
Renders incorrectly. Some issues mitigated with non-standard conditional CSS.

* Certain sections containing dynamic or legacy markup may not be valid XHTML 1.0 transitional.

Development Tools and Strategies

All dynamic content on this site was developed in PHP using Eclipse PDT 2.0. Eclipse and PDT are available under the Eclipse Public License. Non-dynamic pages, client side scripts, and CSS were developed in Dreamweaver 8.

Applications on this site were developed using the Model, View, Controller methodology.

Technologies

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This site is built and hosted on Apache HTTP server.

Apache HTTP server is open-source and provided free of charge under the Apache 2.0 License

For more information on Apache HTTP server, or other products by the Apache foundation, visit Apache.org.

All server-side processing on this site is handled by PHP 5.0.

PHP is a powerful and extendible open-source scripting engine for web sites. It is open-source and available under the PHP licence.

For more information on PHP or PHP libraries, visit PHP.net.

Client-side scripting is provided via Javascript and JQuery.

JQuery is a Javascript extension used to create rich user experiences across all browsers. It is open source and available under either the MIT or GPL license. Aaron M. Bond [dot] COM uses JQuery under the MIT license.

For more information on JQuery or JQuery plugins, visit JQuery.com