One reason for continuing to support IE5/Mac is that OS9 users can't upgrade to anything better. Neither Firefox nor Safari is available for that platform. Netscape 6.x is available but has its own problems. They can't even install an Opera version newer than 6.0.
Steve Green Director Test Partners Ltd / First Accessibility www.testpartners.co.uk www.accessibility.co.uk -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nick Gleitzman Sent: 02 August 2006 00:26 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WSG] Support for IE5/Mac? (was Browser stats) Paul Collins wrote: > so when clients ask me what to build for I can justify building for > IE5 Mac. Given that IE5/Mac is now officially obsolete, why not group it with other dinosaurs (NN4.x et al) with flaky CSS support and filter your CSS delivery so that browser only receives a stylesheet for nice typographic presentation, but not the full layout? This is what I've started doing... Generate the CSS for typography, bg colour/s, etc (e.g. basic.css) and a separate file for (e.g.) layout.css. Use the Tantek hack in the call for the second file in the <head> of your (X)HTML file, thus: <link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' media='all' href='inc/basic.css' /> <style type='text/css' media='screen'>/*\*/@import "inc/layout.css";/**/</style> and voila, IE5/Mac only recognises the first file. It saves hours of trial and error trying to get layouts to work in IE5M as they do in compliant browsers, and keeps your layout.css file clear of multiple instances of the Tantek hack. And as a bonus, because of the media attributes, your print styles are taken care of as well... N ___________________________ Omnivision. Websight. http://www.omnivision.com.au/ ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
