On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 21:56:14 +0200, Roland M�sl wrote:
>> Any reasonable web developer checks his/her work in the browsers
>> that are appropriate for the intended audience of said work.
> Studies had shown, that the value of a Netscape 4 visitor is about
> 60% less than the value of a MSIE using visitor.
Value of a visitor? Haven't heard of that before, but if you are
making a website for a company or governmental institution that years
ago standardized on Netscape 4, you can be pretty sure that the value
of a Netscape 4 visitor is very high and the value of anybody else is
close to zero.
Especially when the boss uses his to look at the website you've made
for her.
That's what I was trying to say - you need to know who your website is
targeting.
> This is because less chance that a N4 user is not only a visitor but
> also a customer
> This is because less average turn around at N4 users when they buy
> something.
You assume that all websites are commercial entities with wide
appeal. The web, fortunately, has much more variety than that.
> So this 5% visitors translate in 2% of turn-around. And this makes
> any N4 support a sensless waste of resouces better invested to
> improve the site for valuable visitors using standard compliant
> browsers
I agree that _in general_ Netscape 4 should be abandoned. But in
practice my original statement about what any reasonable web developer
does still holds. There's a time and a place for fighting for
standards, and there is a time and a place for being pragmatic.
This is off-topic here, any further discussion in
comp.infosystems.www.authoring.site-design.
Best regards,
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