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

[Irv Mullins]

On Friday 09 August 2002 04:06 pm, you wrote:
> 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).

I can only give my personal experience.  I will LEAVE a website 
which is not usable on whatever browser I happen to be using.

I suspect that I'm not the only one who does this, so  
when I design websites, I try very hard to make them at least 
"polite" to everyone, even those who are using Lynx. They won't 
see the pictures, but they were expecting that.  The rest of the 
info is there for them.

The bottom line is, if your client wants to sell things, he'd better 
forget the special effects and avoid telling people to 
"go away".

Regards,
Irv

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