[WSG] Do you still support 4.0 browsers?

2006-02-28 Thread Urbits - Info
If you go to the Australian Taxation Office's site you will find that if you want to download and use E Tax, that you have to use a Version 5 browser and above. Does it get worse.my word it does... it has to be IE If you want to use their electronic business access you have to use

Re: [WSG] Do you still support 4.0 browsers?

2006-02-28 Thread Tom Worthington
On 2/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... would you try and support 4.0 browsers? Yes and No. You can get a long way by using a subset of XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS. This will look pretty on modern browsers and still be usable on old browsers http://www.tomw.net.au/2005/wd/.

[WSG] Do you still support 4.0 browsers?

2006-02-27 Thread leenath1
I found this an interesting read. Click on the following link and scroll to the very bottom of the page and see what browser Acer recommends their site is best experienced with... http://www.acer.com.au/acer/akc/acerau.nsf/Page/Products_and_Technology Makes you wonder about their products,

Re: [WSG] Do you still support 4.0 browsers?

2006-02-27 Thread James Bennett
On 2/27/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But in all seriousness, if you were setting up a website for a client who has never been on the web before (no server logs to analyse) and is marketing their gates/fencing business, would you try and support 4.0 browsers? For a given

Re: [WSG] Do you still support 4.0 browsers?

2006-02-27 Thread Ian Anderson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But in all seriousness, if you were setting up a website for a client who has never been on the web before (no server logs to analyse) and is marketing their gates/fencing business, would you try and support 4.0 browsers? Has the time come to just have a disclaimer on

Re: [WSG] Do you still support 4.0 browsers?

2006-02-27 Thread Geoff Deering
James Bennett wrote: I think the time has long since come to stop having disclaimers about browser support; make sure the content of the site is accessible whether people are using new browsers, old browsers, non-visual browsers, or just shouting into tin cans with strings attached. Then

Re: [WSG] Do you still support 4.0 browsers?

2006-02-27 Thread Ric Raftis
If you go to the Australian Taxation Office's site you will find that if you want to download and use E Tax, that you have to use a Version 5 browser and above. Does it get worse.my word it does... it has to be IE If you want to use their electronic business access you have to use IE

Re: [WSG] Do you still support 4.0 browsers?

2006-02-27 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But in all seriousness, if you were setting up a website for a client who has never been on the web before (no server logs to analyse) and is marketing their gates/fencing business, would you try and support 4.0 browsers? Has the time come to just have a disclaimer

Re: [WSG] Do you still support 4.0 browsers?

2006-02-27 Thread Al Sparber
From: Gunlaug Sørtun [EMAIL PROTECTED] I often add links to http://browsehappy.com/ since all IE versions up to and including IE7 are/will be less capable than the others, and leave the rest up to the visitor without further disclaimers of any sort - apart from those I include on my own site

Re: [WSG] Do you still support 4.0 browsers?

2006-02-27 Thread Gunlaug Sørtun
Al Sparber wrote: It's always good to ask the client if he or she wants a tangential statement associated with their business. It could make more traditional business people feel uneasy - with their web developer. Sounds reasonable :-) I never push anything in there against a client's will.