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.
> >
> >
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