In some cases that 'damn friend' could be an important stakeholder. It also might be a matter of personal pride for the owner of the site if they have friends or users who will have a particular browser or OS. If either of these situations arise then browser stats won't help you, even though barely anyone uses Mac IE5... reality bites :(
In most cases it pays to work out levels of browser support before you start designing and deal with any issues up front. Convince the client that having to support a browser with small market share will limit the functionality. Get them to agree up front that the design doesn't have to be pixel perfect in said browser(s) but the content (the important stuff) will be available. Then they can't complain at the end... But hopefully they won't because you given them sufficient warning, but wait a second, i forgot, this is reality ;) Mt. -----Original Message----- From: Universal Head [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2004 3:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] should I track down this problem? It's probably something to do with that as one of the two problems is a standard horizontal list nav stuffing up. It does make the navigation virtually unusable I must admit. But what can you do? My point to posting was, how many specific version numbers can one check in anyway? Having it work well in all those browsers and then having some obscure bug in an obscure browser make it go pear-shaped - well, it would be impossible to check it in every version number of every browser that ever lived. If only they had expiry dates! I mean, how many people using IE5 on Mac OS9? (apart from my damn friend that is!) ;) Peter On 20/05/2004, at 3:20 PM, Kay Smoljak wrote: I thought I had a train wreck on a site in IE5Mac a while back - but it turns out there's a major bug with clearing floats, and as soon as I put in separate divs to clear the other elements, it started looking fine. So until you find the bug, don't despair! Universal Head Design That Works. 7/43 Bridge Rd Stanmore NSW 2048 Australia T (+612) 9517 1466 F (+612) 9565 4747 E [EMAIL PROTECTED] W www.universalhead.com ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
