Hi Siobhan
Was interested to read your posting as this is a message I recently sent to the IS Forum -
" ... a smallish housing charity has maintained a web site for a few years. From their web logs they know they have on average between 10-15% of visitors each month who are using Netscape 4. They do not want to lose these visitors, nor alienate them, but are in a quandary as they are now hoping to start a blog for shorter informal postings. It seems that most blogging software does not display properly in Netscape 4 (frames? or ...?) So does anyone know of any blogging software / site that displays properly in Netscape 4. ... "
This is in the UK and certainly until recently I was lead to believe Netscape 4 is still used by a recognisable % of less well resourced community and advocacy groups in Asia (Indian sub continent) - although I have not seen any recent statistics on this.
Would be interested to know if you know have, or any one has, recent figures on this for any part of the world.
JW
At 15:13 14/04/2005, Siobhan Green wrote:
Hi all,
I was wondering what y'alls thoughts are on what the current browser compliance standards should be for international audiences. I develop websites for a variety of non-profits which want to ensure the sites are accessible by the majority of users in developing countries. I know that the sites need to be low bandwidth, 508 compliant/highly usable.
For a long time, I have been using Netscape 4.75 as the lowest common denominator in terms of browser compliance but am wondering if this is long out of date, especially as this browser is not fully compliant with CSS 1 (let alone CSS 2, XML or newer HTML standards). The good thing about 508 compliance is that the site needs to degrade gracefully without a CSS so I am not worried about a site being totally unusable (just ugly or harder to use).
Obviously, if the site is intentionally directed at a specific audience in a specific country, then we will make the site supportive of that specific environment. But I also need a general rule of thumb where we have a broad audience of "Development community" or "General Public".
Suggestions, thoughts, experiences, all welcome!!
Siobhan Green
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