Lee Privett wrote:
Even with Mr Dunbar's incorrect address Google Chrome (under XP) got
me thereafter one more click, as for the Quanta website, that is
currently displaying correctly in Chrome, and displays correctly in
Opera too but not in IE 8, IE9 will not run in XP hence I changed to
Chrome.
PS I have only looked at the home page
Lee
The point here being that websites using CSS can go well astray under
some versions of IE as Norman explained.
Next point of course is that (as Norman suggested) should we go the
extra mile to make sure that the body of IE users get web pages that
will display as intended on IE or just take the viewpoint that "This
website doesn't display correctly on Internet Exploder. Tough. Try
another browser."
Of course, it's the age-old question of "how far do you take
compatibility"? Many old QL games won't run on QPC2 in high resolution
or high colour modes for example, but will work if you start QPC2 in
mode 4 512x256 (or possibly with QPC_QLSCREMU turned on) thus forcing
screen memory and system variables to the same location as a QL,
because Marcel went to great lengths to ensure some compatibility with
older software not written to modern standards. How far can people be
reasonably expected to go to make websites and software work on all
systems past and present?
Quanta's website will soon be moved to a new ISP who have specific
knowledge and experience of the Typo3 CMS and the various plugins we
would like to be able to use, such as the troublesome News one which
has caused us so much difficulty since the middle of last year. I just
hope (fingers and everything else crossed) that this closes the door
on past problems and frees us to concentrate on the content as we want
to do, and enable us to move forward with long term projects such as
putting the Library online for members.
I hope, I really really do.
Dilwyn Jones
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