Send them this link and inform them that you don't support browsers with little to no penetration. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp But at the same time, offer to do the debugging for an additional charge. You're really relegated to what ever was in your contract. If you didn't explicitly outline which browsers you'd be optimizing for you may be stuck debugging it for free if the client is really unreasonable. I've always used a standalone version of IE6 but I can't say if there's a viable IE7 standalone.
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Vayu Robins <v...@vayu.dk> wrote: > Hi flashcoders, > > I just finished a website for a client and the client writes back and says > that one of her friends has IE8 and that the website is not displaying > correctly. > > The website is displaying correctly in IE6 and IE7. I was first surprised > to hear that IE8 was released, but I later found out that its a Release > Candidate 1, which I presume is a sort of a Beta version. > > Does anybody have any comments on this? Should I download the IE8 version > and find the problem? I am on a mac, using Parallels Desktop, Windows XP. > > I am worried that I wont be able to test for IE7 and IE6 afterwards, that > IE8 will remove them. > > Is it fair of client to ask me test for IE8 when it isn't officially > released yet? > > Furthermore, what is this Microsoft is releasing now? I thought IE8 was > suppose to get better and be easier to develop for and follow web standards > more like Firefox, Safari and others. The amount of additional work needed > for IE6 + IE7 is plenty, now we have to IE8 as well... > > Vayu > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- --Joel Stransky stranskydesign.com _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
