[thelist] Site Check - IE Explorer v5 anomaly

[Joshua Olson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred D Yocum
> Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:38 AM

> In IE Mac v5.2  in OS X the navigational buttons on each side 
> of the image float to the top of the containing box and the 
> background image on the containing block does not show up.
> 
> Looks as expected in 
> FireFox v1.0.7 on Mac
> Safari
> IE PC v5 - v6
> Firefox 1.0.4 Linux
> MSIE 6.0 -Windows XP
> Safari 2.0- Mac OS X
> 
> Thoughts, ideas, diatribes?

Fred,

Unless you have some overwhelming and compelling reason to support IE on the
Mac, I'd suggest you put your energies elsewhere.  IE/Mac is an outright
shame in regards to compliancy, and has almost zero market penetration.  If
I had to find a number, I may look at the numbers that the BBC published [0]
for visitors to their homepage.  Mac represents only 4.4% of their visitors,
and only 30% of those are using IE 5.  Overall, that's only 1.32% of their
visitors.  I believe this to be a fairly representative slice of the general
population.

[0] http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/index.php

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