Mark, It looks like I finally agree with you on something, although I can understand where Harry's coming from. The RGJ.com numbers for 2003 run something like only 7.7 percent non-W32 visits, where Macs outpace Linux boxes by an order of magnitude. Eighty percent of the visitors use some kind of Microsoft browser. Limiting development, testing, etc. to the larger majority certainly makes their job easier.
But I'm not quite sure I understand how targeting IE makes it easier to meet Section 508, or where Mozilla falls short. It's worth exploring, in order to counter knee-jerk responses to complex legislation. I suspect that targeting IE makes it easier to create "richer" interfaces -- the reason web designers have wanted to ignore non-IE users in the first place. But then also supporting Safari blows that out of the water, because you're still hitting two separate targets based on different rendering engines. Anyway, I've come across mentions here and there that open-source projects are somehow not as accessibility-friendly as their closed-source counterparts. It's worth a look, but it may just turn out to be more of a political problem. -M. Marcel Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: "Mark C. Ballew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 29 Jul 2003 03:48:16 +0000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [RLUG] Locking into mystery meat source at the University _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
