[ale] Browser compatibility? (was: Wachovia web banking seems to be fixed with Mozilla)

[Fulton Green]

Here's a burning question: just how far back should we web designers shoot
for in browser compatibility? The reason I'm asking is that the website I'm
designing for a client requires some JavaScript for the DHTML and also uses
CSS pretty heavily. MSIE >= 5.0 and Netscape >= 6.0 seem to like what I've
done so far, but Netscape 4.7x totally chokes on the DHTML JavaScript and
almost totally ignores the CSS hints. I'm almost halfway tempted to throw
an upgrade nastygram to NS 4.7x users, but I'm curious if I should provide
at least some sort of compatibility for them, especially since Red Hat is
now only just removing NS 4.7x from their distro (and other distros might
still install it by default).

Thoughts? TIA.

On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 03:53:50PM -0400, Jim wrote:
> demanded a fix. When you run a business on the Web, it is just idiotic to 
> lock somebody out. You could even argue that it's a form of discrimination. 
> If a browser is standards-compliant and meets security requirements, there is 
> no need to lock anybody out. Period.

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