On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:50 PM, James E Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > Has anyone seen a standard recommendation on how many browsers and how far > back a web site should allow for?
Sure! "Support the browsers that your customers (and potential customers) are using." --- If you are offering a customizable, AJAX-driven, Twitter-entwined, geolocated, cool app for customers to use on their iPhone, you can probably drop IE4/5/6 and Netscape 4.7 support. If you're trying to sell salvaged house hardware, you should probably be supporting WebTV, dial-up (speed way more important that browser!), HTML 4.01 and AOL., if that's what you find your customers are using. If you are offering Windows-only software, perhaps you don't need to target Safari and iPhones or Konqueror. I build web apps for many customers, and I prefer (and primarily target) the current and previous versions of the most popular browsers, in order: FireFox, Internet Explorer, Safari. Acceptance criteria varies for each of my customers: European companies might want Opera testing, Far East firms want UTF-8 l18n, cutting edge firms want XHTML 1.1 and CSS 2.1 or 3. That said, I target making 100% valid code, then back off as needed for functionality. That makes the pages viewable in the maximum variety of browser, imo. That might take a bit of effort: http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.hanoverpa.com&charset=(detect+automatically)&doctype=Inline&group=0 And I hate to mention it last, but accessibility, testable and verifiable, needs to be a priority for us as well. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
