[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IE for MAC is a AWFUL browser. And therefore is no longer being
developed.
Correction: IE/Mac is an awful browser today, BECAUSE it's no longer
being developed - not the other way around.
Based on what it was when they pulled the plug: if IE/Mac had been
developed a bit further, then it might well have been in the forefront
today. So much for facts.
About 3% of users are MAC and out of there only a fraction wil use IE
(does anyone have an actual % of IE for MAC users). Why would you
when you have Safari?? I would make a text only version for these
fools.
Generally; I don't like being called a fool :-) (but of course; I can
switch to whatever I like, when I like).
Don't think other IE/Mac users would like to be called "fools" either,
if they are in such a position that they cannot make Safari work on
their OS.
Statistics are useful at times, but unless you know _exactly_ what
percentage would use each OS/browser on a specific site *if* they had a
choice, such statistics will only show what's being used by visitors
*after* you have shown the unsupported ones that the site isn't working
for them.
That's how statistics "prove" itself and becomes _completely useless_.
I would like to hear other peoples thoughts on this....
A 'non-CSS' or 'limited-CSS' display would do fine in many cases. That
goes for all old browsers/versions.
Since old IE/Mac is doing surprisingly well when compared to other old
browsers (since it had superior CSS-support for its time), it is often
possible to give IE/Mac a quite good-looking version too. It doesn't
have to be the same as other browsers get, in order to be alright.
If for nothing else; it doesn't hurt to practice a bit on obscure
browsers, just so you know what they're capable of and what not.
The bottom line would IMO be to do what you can regarding support for
old, somewhat capable, browsers, as long as it doesn't mean degrading
sites/designs for the new browsers/versions - regardless of OS and
statistics.
Ref: <http://www.gunlaug.no/contents/wd_1_02_02.html>
regards
Georg
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