I wish more web authors would side with you on this.
Maybe I will stop sniffing and put a "Works best in Netscape 6.1, IE
5.5, and Opera 4.whatever" statement on my site.
jesus X wrote:
> Kevin Berkheiser wrote:
>
>>And many of us think it should be 7.0 because of all the layout bug
>>fixes. Now I guess you have to sniff out the minor version to figure
>>out if your page can be properly displayed.
>>
>
> I'm a bit more militant. I'm the creator of the semi infamous "On minimum system
> requirements" thread almost a year ago (maybe 9 months), which got me 47 direct
> emails from people calling me many nasty words. I don't go out of my way to
> break old browsers, but I also don't go out of my way to make sites perfect for
> every bug ridden version of browsers either. Anything less than IE4 I ignore and
> make no special accommodations for. Same thing for NS3 and below. I don't code
> for early NS4.x browsers, aiming for 4.5 and above users, and IE 4 and above
> (although I make no great strides to make sure IE4.0 renders correctly). In my
> view, get with the program (no pun intended). It's 2001. Internet years come 4
> to the real year. That means if you're using NS4.0x then you're more than a
> decade in the past. Same with IE4. MS doesn't even support Win95 anymore, so I
> think 4.x browser support is charitable. If a user is using a shitty browser
> (and yes, NS 6 is a shitty browser for a commercial release) then they HAVE to
> know it. There's no way you can browse and accidentally avoid ALL reports that
> your browser sucks. When NS6.5 hits, then I'll code for it. I already ignore
> some bugs that show up in Mozilla because I know they'll be fixed when 1.0 is
> born.
>
> The only good reason for sniffing is to tell a user their browser is shitty.
> Proprietary tags SUCK. If it's coded to reasonable standards, and a browser
> can't view it right, then it ain't the code's fault.
>
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