On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:57:18 +0000 Nathan Baxter
<nathanbax...@pixelmasochist.net> said:

> >>>> How far back does browser support need to go?
> >>> for browsers? ummm tbh thats a good q. while i'd LIKE ie6 to work.. and
> >>> netscape 1.1... and mosaic... reality is there is only so much we 
> >>> can sensibly
> >>> do. i think i'd say "make ie7 work" ie... when ie finally stopped 
> >>> being AS crap
> >>> and begin to think of the modern world a little.... but it depends 
> >>> on how hard
> >>> it is.
> >>
> >> There are more than a few tricks for this, it is time consuming, but not
> >> impossible.
> >> My job generally requires IE6 compatibility any way so I have the means
> >> to test this.
> >>
> >> If a site works In IE 6,7,8, FF, Chrome, Opera and elinks we should have
> >> most of the bases covered.
> >
> > Really? Do people still care about IE6? Seriously dude, don't bother 
> > with this one. It's officially dead for a long time. Less than 6% of 
> > the world uses ie6, most of it from China. I think it's safe to say 
> > that less than 0.000000000000006% of the people that enter the E 
> > website use IE6. We can easily verify that with some server logs.
> >
> > http://www.ie6countdown.com/
> >
> > -- 
> > Tom.
> 
> Personnaly I'd ignore everything that doesn't support some of the newer 
> & superior elements of CSS3. I'd gladly ignore everything before IE10, 
> but this isn't my site, it's the teams.

the problem is a lot of peopl dont control what browser they can use. they live
on corporate it networks where they are told to use browser X and not allowed
to install/use another. so to a large extent we have to play nice. the
question is just "how nice". how much work is it? how much does it limit us?
i'd agree with "css3/html5 stuff only" except for the fact that reality is
people use things like ie7 and ie8 still in real life. ie7 and ie8 are still
around a lot - but they are a vast improvement over 6 - so it may be a good
baseline. of course anyone on firefox or chrome likely is upgrading a lot and
often - so thats less of a problem. opera too etc.


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