On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 12:19:51 +0100 Steven Le Roux <ste...@le-roux.info> said:
agreed - we can drop some people from support. it depends how well it degrades tho and who those people are.. only time will tell. > Don't forget that you're not selling services through the web site. > > Ok you need a simple download page that will work for all browser, even > curl script, but since you're not selling services, you don't miss money > transactions when a button doesn't work because of a faulty browser. > > To my pov it can even rely on a responsive bootstrap css that will handle > many browser, and less pain for non-paid dev that will write the web site. > > Regards, > > > On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:22 AM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > -- > > ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- > > The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer > > Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 > > and get the hardware for free! Learn more. > > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb > > _______________________________________________ > > enlightenment-devel mailing list > > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > > > > > > -- > Steven Le Roux > Jabber-ID : ste...@jabber.fr > 0x39494CCB <ste...@le-roux.info> > 2FF7 226B 552E 4709 03F0 6281 72D7 A010 3949 4CCB > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer > Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 > and get the hardware for free! Learn more. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-devel mailing list > enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) ras...@rasterman.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list enlightenment-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel