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Please note: you can visit the University of Michigan mobile Gateway or text-only site for a fast and simple cross-platform browsing experience. We will be further optimizing the U-M mobile site for the mobile user experience in the coming months.
Handheld device support and mobile computing is currently one of our top priorities. With the growing popularity of iPhones, tablets, netbooks, Android smartphones, and other handheld devices, the mobile web is here to stay. The University of Michigan is committed to embracing this new world and bringing you the information and services you need, where and when you need them. This is an exciting time, so stay tuned for more developments by following our mobile development blog or the U-M Gateway development blog, and the U-M Mobile Center.
Additionally, our full graphic site offers mobile device support via a layered system of handheld stylesheets. We also employ full separation of presentation and content, proper source ordering, well-structured and valid markup, good linearization, and follow an array of accessibility standards and best practices, allowing our site to display and function well without stylesheets, images, JavaScript, or Flash enabled.
For those who find the full graphic version of our site a bit sluggish on slower handheld devices or cellular networks, we recommend using our mobile website, which is much more optimized for these conditions. That said, we regularly browse the graphic site on our iPhones and find it quite usable. Your mileage may vary.
Desktop Browsers
The full graphical version of this website was tested and optimized for varying degrees of support on the latest versions of the following browsers:
- Windows
- Internet Explorer
- Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Opera
- Mozilla
- Safari
- JAWS / Connect Outloud
- Mac OS X and iPhone OS
- Safari / Safari for iPhone
- Firefox
- Google Chrome
- Camino
- Mozilla
- Lynx
We have built this site in compliance with leading web standards. Therefore, we hope that this site will display well in any standards-friendly browsers not in our primary test suite. If any users do experience problems with our site, we recommend upgrading to the latest stable version of any standards-friendly web browser — especially the ones listed above.
Standards Support
Here are a few of the web standards and methodologies we try to support:
Additional Resources
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