On 9/7/06, Onno Timmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why make jquery compatible whit dinosaure browsers. If I'm correct it > only makes jquery more complicated and more Kb's. IE 5.0 IE 5.5 should > be dropped out of support. IE 6 and IE 7 is ok and less buggy. Who > still uses IE 5.0 ? > Besides one more year and nobody uses it anymore. >
As of October last year, about 6.7% of web users were using IE5 or 5.5 (http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/index.php), more than twice the number using Safari and more than twenty times the number of Opera users. Obviously the picture will have shifted somewhat in the meantime, but users of those browsers shouldn't be dismissed so easily. John's plugin solution sounds eminently sensible, but if you really are worried about code bloat you could use a conditional comment to hide jQuery from those browsers altogether. If you're doing proper unobtrusive javascript your site should still work without it. -- Chris Ovenden http://thepeer.blogspot.com "Imagine all the people / Sharing all the world" _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list [email protected] http://jquery.com/discuss/
