[thelist] Jumping In With Both Feet

Paul Backhouse paul.backhouse at 2cs.com
Tue Dec 11 05:06:13 CST 2001


Chad,
	find your target audience - who is the website actually for?
If your designing a website that is aiming towards developers, then i'd say
you want to make your site work in as many browsers as you can (within
reason - IE, NS, Mozilla, Opera - draw the line there).

If you're aiming your site at the general public then you have to consider
what country e.g. Americans - general public are confident enough now to
start playing around with different browsers - where as the British public -
you might as well just program for IE and NS 4.x + - play the percentages!

The public now buy Pc, mac etc....in the uk this became affordable for more
families - standard build IE 4.x win95 - NS was not heard of in the public -
AOL then started supplying it - but doubtful any of them bothered to install
it - ISP would normally come already installed on the system.

You have to decide what you are aiming at - it could market practice - what
the point of making a website work in NS 3 (for example) when only 0.02% are
viewing sites in it?

thats what i think anyway.

-----Original Message-----
From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Karen J. Bowen
Sent: 11 December 2001 10:54
To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject: Re: [thelist] Jumping In With Both Feet


Hi Chad,

I notice your front page comment - "(Sorry - I'm SICK of NETSCAPE)" -
and can understand where you're coming from with NN4.x (who couldn't!)

However, Mozilla/Netscape 6.2+ are browsers definitely worth coding for
- your pages all actually look great (same as IE) in Moz 0.9.6 which I'm
using now.  Plus Mozilla/Netscape are standards compliant browsers, so
if you're planning to stick to specs, then you'll be fine with them.

As to your specific question, check out the Netscape/DevEdge Evangelism
pages - http://developer.netscape.com/evangelism/index.html - for a slew
of excellent articles, tutes and references with everything related to
building cross-browser, compliant pages.

HTH
Karen


Chad Savage wrote:

> Duh. Guess a link to the site in question would've
> been helpful, eh?
>
> http://www.sinistervisions.com
>



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