[thelist] CSS + Netscape 4.7 HELL

Anthony Baker lists at thinkbigideas.com
Sun Feb 2 11:52:01 CST 2003


Hey All,

I have an issue.

I have completed the design of a website for a client
of mine that's authored in CSS/XHTML. The sucker works
great on all current browsers, but NOT on Netscape 4.7.

I informed her early on that the site was going to be
built to standards, and that Netscape 4.7 was old as
well, non-compliant, and fewer and fewer folks were
using it. (Of course, I didn't get this all in writing
in the contract.)

Now, she's had a total of TWO people say that they can't
view the site on Netscape 4.x and wants to make sure that
it's designed so they can.

The thought of this is driving me nuts. I've already told
her that if it's done, they're going to get a dumbed-down
version of it that does not look or work like the site
everyone else is going to see. Frankly, I don't want to
do anything for this at all. I'd like Netscape 4.x users
to get a life and UPGRADE for God's sake.

So, I can either:

 (1) Convince her I'm right and offer an upgrade page
     for Netscape users

 (2) Suck it up and create a mirror/Netscape 4.x version
     of the site

Any suggestions? Anyone ever deal with something like
this?

Oh, and I'd also like to get off my chest: I HATE having
to jump through hoops based on the email of two people.
Aggghhhhh.


Thanks,

Anthony




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