Old Mac Users are stuck I tried to a get a friends mac online and using
Yahoo Mail (around the time a ymail dropped support of that browser) it had
ie5 and nothing would work at all, no other options it was a second hand
(supposedly cost effective machine) phazed into obselence. I frequently see
IE6 on win xp in my logs, I have been in net cafes that refuse to update ie
to 7 on xp (they did not express why). I am yearning for the day when IE6
can be removed from the equation, but I find following a few simple
guidelines much of the trauma can be alleviated (I have just tested a basic
liquid grid in ie6 and all is seeming well).
I say to clients that I support browsers currently supported by respect
vendors + IE6 on xp / win2k (but when more advanced features are aimed for
these may work or not on such horrid browsers - and if so to a lesser
degree) ~ Its been a while since I have seen win ie 5.x in a log of any
of my sites
The web is rapidly evolving, which make treeware pretty bad at keeping up.
when at college 10+ years ago my lecturer advised to avoid books - since
anything printed will need revision by the time its printed (it was seen as
an extreme view then ~ still like books myself but I understood his gist)
Going too far back prevents much progress ~ clients usually appreciate that
Verify everything you read by seeing what others have to say in
'blogsphere'. There is discussion about the jQuery.com site not displaying
correctly in IE7 currently the issue has not been identified as yet but the
cause is thought to be a plugin/addon for the browsers. (thats something to
be careful of when testing ~ if a client complains about display issues
check what extensions to the browser are being used)
@Sigurd - I am suprised to hear that Silverstripe administration supports
IE6. I have been meaning to checkout Silverstripe having heard great things
about it and what I have seen is very impressive indeed
- S
2009/3/20 MichaelMD md...@spraci.com
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 21:10 +1300, Sigurd Magnusson wrote:
Most websites we build at SilverStripe have IE 6.0 as a minimum, and
even then, we're unpatiently anticipating the time when we can drop IE
6.
I still see quite a few people using IE5 Mac (probably OS9 users stuck
with that) in the server logs here and LOTS of IE6 ... so I think it
will be a while somehow...
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