>Yet they do it all the time. Web sites used to commonly have IE4 or Netscape >4 buttons on their site, since you had to have those browsers to correctly >see their pages. It limited their site, but they just asked users to >upgrade. They often figure it's your own problem if you don't want to or >can't. > >Apple now limits most of its online QuickTime movies to version 5 users. >Many government web site PDFs require Acrobat Reader 4. Shockwave Flash, >RealPlayer, Windows Media, etc. all work the same way. HTML is at version 4 >and it's bound to get upgraded (XML) so that you have to use newer browsers. > >Enough people upgrade that it makes it okay in the site owners' minds to >limit it.
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