[thelist] Jumping In With Both Feet

maurice maurice at graciebarra.be
Tue Dec 11 11:06:15 CST 2001


If they chose to keep those browsers, it is more than likely that they are
satisfied with them.
So if a page breaks in them, and they still don't want to update it means
they are happy with that page breaking.

Read zeldman at http://www.alistpart.com this week, their stats for NN4
usage actually went up the moment they started hiding their sites design for
version 4 browsers.

This suggest people are happy with their older browsers as lang as they can
get to the content of your site. ==> CSS is the way.

On the other hand, try telling this to some client you have who sees his
house style ruined in NN4, because it cannot handle your CSS?

Difficult huh?


Maurice


on 11-12-2001 15:02, Mark Howells at mark at mountain.ch wrote:

>> Von: "Hershel Robinson" <hershelsr at yahoo.com>
>> Betreff: Re: [thelist] Jumping In With Both Feet
>> 
>> He doesn't want to spend the time downloading on his modem and he doesn't
>> want
>> to spend the time installing on his PC
> 
> This is a totally fair point, but should web development be driving with the
> hand brake on because of users who have made this decision? Surely the way
> forward is to build websites so that browser differences become an
> irrelevance. Moving towards the separation of content from design using
> XHTML, CSS and the like will mean that more pages will be legible in both
> legacy and standards-compliant browsers (albeit with different styling and
> functional capabilities).
> 
>> he doesn't see any need to upgrade - his current browser seems to work just
> fine to him!
> 
> It will work very well, as long as web development stays at the same level
> as when Win95 / IE4.x was released.
> 
> Mark Howells
> Working in a Winter Wonderland
> http://www.mark.ac
> 





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